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  • noun The time of year when the weather is snowy

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Examples

  • “When summer came —” “In winter snowtime —” The doors go shutting far in the distance, gently knocking like the pulse of a heart.

    A Haunted House, and other short stories 2004

  • The leafs are on fire, but so what, they all gone by snowtime.

    Flint, the King Kirchoff, Mary 2003

  • The leafs are on fire, but so what, they all gone by snowtime.

    Flint the King Kirchoff, Mary 1990

  • Foot to fire in snowtime we trimm'd the slender shaft:

    Phoebus with Admetus 1919

  • In the North Woods where I spent my young days, the first butterfly to be seen in the springtime was the Mourning-cloak, and the reason we saw it so early in the season, yes, even in the snowtime, was because this is one of the Butterflies that sometimes sleep all winter, and so live in two different seasons.

    Woodland Tales Ernest Thompson Seton 1903

  • Foot to fire in snowtime we trimmed the slender shaft:

    Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868

  • This is a great disappointment to her older brother, who is convinced that snowtime means playtime, and playtime means hopping up and down on his big sister or playing tag among the drifts.

    Unqualified Offerings 2010

  • "Only in snowtime," his host explained quietly, "when the baiga and magilwc do not bloom.

    Orphan Star Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1983

  • "Only in snowtime," his host explained quietly, "when the baiga and magilwc do not bloom.

    Orphan Star Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1977

  • "Only in snowtime," his host explained quietly, "when thebaiga andmagilwc do not bloom.

    Orphan Star Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1977

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