霜しも
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Meanings
Noun
1. frost
2. white hair; grey hair; gray hair (Poetic)
Kanji used
Pitch accent
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Used in vocabulary
霜しも降ふり
speckled with white; salt-and-pepper (pattern, fabric, etc.); marbling (of beef); (of fish, chicken, shellfish, etc.) blanching by exposure to boiling and then icy water; formation of frost
No-adjective
霜しも囲がこい
covering which protects against frost
Noun
別わかれ霜じも
late frost; frost in late spring
Noun
霜しも取とり
defrosting (e.g. of a freezer)
Noun
Examples19
The ground was covered with frost this morning.
Car windows accumulate frost on winter mornings.
The frost rendered the orange crop worthless.
There is frost on the grass.
We had a heavy frost this morning.
It frosted last night.