Also snowstorm. [f. SNOW sb.1 Cf. G. schneesturm, Sw. snöstorm.] A storm accompanied by a heavy fall of snow.
a. 1800. Pegge, Suppl. Grose, Snow-storm, a continued snow so long as it lies on the ground. North.
1813. Shelley, Q. Mab, VIII. 60. Those wastes of frozen billows that were hurled By everlasting snowstorms round the poles.
1860. Tyndall, Glac., I. xxiv. 170. I … climbed amid a heavy snow-storm to the Cleft station.
1878. Browning, Poets Croisic, 17. Bidding care Keep outside with the snow-storm.
fig. 1893. F. F. Moore, I Forbid Banns (1899), 141. The next day there was a snow-storm, with invitation cards for flakes, on her table.
1896. Westm. Gaz., 23 April, 7/2. He lived in a snow-storm of letters asking him for money.
