Thaw-drop

noun

noun ·Rare ·Advanced level

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Noun
  1. 1
    A drop of water formed by melting snow or ice.

    "When she gave me one cold parting kiss upon my forehead, like a thaw-drop from the stone porch——it was a very frosty day——I felt so miserable and self-reproachful that I clung to her and told her it was my fault, I knew, that she could say good-bye so easily!"

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"When she gave me one cold parting kiss upon my forehead, like a thaw-drop from the stone porch——it was a very frosty day——I felt so miserable and self-reproachful that I clung to her and told her it was my fault, I knew, that she could say good-bye so easily!"

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