Also snowfield. [f. SNOW sb.1 Cf. G. schneefeld, Sw. snöfält.] An extensive stretch or expanse of snow.
1845. S. Judd, Margaret, I. xvii. 171. The snow-fields seemed to bloom with glowing sorrel flowers.
1856. Kane, Arctic Explor., II. xxiii. 224. The snow-fields before us to the south.
1871. L. Stephen, Playgr. Eur. (1894), v. 120. The sun had long touched the higher snow-fields.
