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Definitions

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A thin coating of ice, as on rock.

Etymologies

  1. French, from Old French verre-glaz : verre, glass (from Latin vitrum) + glas, glace, ice (from Vulgar Latin *glacia, from Latin glaciēs; see glacé). (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

Examples

  • “J'ai depensé des centaine de dollars chez Luts en fringues d'hiver pour Ezy qui ne serviront a rien puisque malgre l'alerte orange voire rouge nous n'avons aucun flocon de neige ... juste trois quatre plaque de verglas a la con .... bref!”

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  • “Aussi, on est en alerte orange, bientot rouge pour la neige, le verglas et tout et tout alors bon ...”

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  • “Pas pour toujours mais genre quand ya du verglas ou des trucs comme ca comme elle habite pas loin du boulot.”

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  • “Time slipped by and the salt trucks had passed and the sun had burned most of the verglas off the trees where it dripped, dripped onto the ground.”

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  • “My eyebrows were soon covered in hoarfrost, and my fleece was turned to verglas.”

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  • “He beat the verglas from its sides and drew it on, zipping it to the throat and pulling up the hood.”

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  • “Pushing myself, continually out of breath, I scurried up and to the left across small snowfields linked by narrow runnels of verglas and short rock bands.”

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  • “Barely breathing now, I moved my feet up, scrabbling my crampon points across the verglas.”

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  • “The ice in the chimney did in fact prove to be continuous, but it was very, very thin -- just a gossamer film of verglas.”

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  • “Sifflait; sur le verglas, dans des lieux inconnus,”

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  • apgarian thin layer of ice coating a rocky surface or path Sep 5, 2009

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