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20 January 2025

Pruinesence

 


Many words from the winter dictionary won't become part of my vocabulary but I think I could make an exception for pruinesence.  It's the beautiful white covering of frost seen on crisp winter days.  A much nicer term than hoar frost, I think you will agree.  It's easy to find lovely cosy words for the winter but beautiful outdoor ones are to be treasured.  

These days I admire the trees at a distance.  All too often the weather is too snarry for me.  Snarry?  Piercingly, bitingly cold.  It's much colder riding on a trundle truck than walking!  I will watch any snow blossoms from a distance.  And that's not just me being poetic - snowflakes were called snow blossoms (at least in written English) before they were called snowflakes.   


10 comments:

  1. Snow flowers sounds a much better name than flakes and I’m loving your posts about winter things. This will make a good quiz question so I have saved it on my phone for a later date. Thank you, Catriona

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    1. Glad you enjoy reading them - I'm enjoying writing them.

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  2. I like the term snow blossoms. I didn't realize there were so many winter-related words!

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  3. Snow blossoms, how delightful. I collect new words too, some from blogs I read (toodle pip) and some from books like those Anthony Trollope wrote. Grand old English words, furbellow, collywobbles, bimble. When I used to write articles I would try to fit one or two in to the article.

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    1. Toodle pip, collywobbles, bimble are in fairly common usage here. Furbellow in use but less so.

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  4. Snow blossoms, I love that. Just like flowers there are always some differences.

    God bless.

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  5. Lovely photos, Mary. Snow blossoms? I like that better than snowflakes. And I would imagine it is colder on a scooter than it is walking but for me, here anyway, it has been too cold for any of it and I am thinking of going into hibernation mode until at least April. Stay safe and warm, Mary!

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    1. Yes, I know wat you mean. Snow blossoms are best observed from behind glass.

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