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  • adjective Resembling frost or some aspect of it.

Etymologies

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frost +‎ -like

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Examples

  • There was a large bed with a carved wooden headboard, a tall window obscured by long velvet curtains and a chandelier thickly coated in dust with candle scrubs still resting in its sockets, solid wax banging in frostlike drips.

    Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Rowling, J. K. 2007

  • Also, in the morning, the people found frostlike flakes on the ground.

    Puzzlements & Predicaments of the Bible Linda Washington 2007

  • There was a large bed with a carved wooden headboard, a tall window obscured by long velvet curtains and a chandelier thickly coated in dust with candle scrubs still resting in its sockets, solid wax hanging in frostlike drips.

    Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows Rowling, J. K. 2007

  • Also, in the morning, the people found frostlike flakes on the ground.

    Puzzlements & Predicaments of the Bible Linda Washington 2007

  • The installations looked pitifully small against such a background, beneath so many frostlike stars.

    Three Worlds to Conquer Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1964

  • The installa'tions looked pitifully small against such a background, be-neath so many frostlike stars.

    Three Worlds To Conquer Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1964

  • Then he straightened himself up, and walked over to the fire-place, and stood there, looking at the burning logs with their frostlike ashes and their throbbing cores of flame.

    The Picture of Dorian Gray 1931

  • Gretchen was always up when the morning was rosy, when the trees were still dark and motionless, and the beads of dew white and frostlike.

    The Goose Girl Harold MacGrath 1901

  • Then he straightened himself up, and walked over to the fire-place, and stood there, looking at the burning logs with their frostlike ashes and their throbbing cores of flame.

    The Picture of Dorian Gray 1890

  • Beyond the chasm-like gorge he saw presently on the high ascent opposite footprints that had broken the light frostlike coating of ice on the dead leaves and moss -- climbing footprints, swift, disordered.

    The Phantoms Of The Foot-Bridge 1895 Mary Noailles Murfree 1886

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