[f. SNOW sb.1]

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  1.  A heap of snow blown together by the wind; a snowdrift.

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1818.  Scott, Hrt. Midl., viii. The tenants … were not actually turned out of doors among the snow-wreaths.

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1854.  J. S. C. Abbott, Napoleon (1855), III. ix. 139. The outer ranks on either side melted like snow-wreaths on the river’s brink.

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1873.  Symonds, Grk. Poets, xi. 357, note. Home to their stalls at eve the oxen came Down from the mountain through the snow-wreaths deep.

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  2.  As a plant-name (see quot.).

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1901.  Bailey & Miller, Cycl. Amer. Horticult., III. 1079. [Neviusia] Alabamensis, Gray. Snow Wreath.

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