duck's frost

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A slight frost visible in the morning; (jocularly) rain (overnight).
    — The weather most unsuitable is that kind of frost which comes on in the early morning, and is accompanied with some rime on the grass—a duck's frost, just sufficient to check fox-hunting. Every footstep on grass in this condition when the sun comes out burns up as black as if the sole of the boot were of red-hot iron, and the poacher leaves an indelible trail[…]

词形变化

duck-frost alternative
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