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Diamond dust   /dˈaɪmənd dəst/   Listen
Diamond dust

noun
1.
Small crystals of ice.  Synonyms: frost mist, frost snow, ice crystal, ice needle, poudrin, snow mist.





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"Diamond dust" Quotes from Famous Books



... as the doomed nobleman stood there facing them in stoic triumph, that diamond dust in the human system was as slow as it was deadly, and that the desperate gesture had been futile, so far as justice ...
— Astounding Stories, July, 1931 • Various
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... aspiration of the Ideal in Nature. You can not realize it; and yet, you will never forget it. Don't take it too early in the Spring, when it is less ethereal—nay, somewhat heavy; rather see it in summer after the rains, or in autumn, better than all, when it is like a tissue of diamond dust shaken upon the air. It really seems a labor for it to reach its foaming basin, it is so filmy, spiritual, delicate. The very air wooes it from its perpetual leap; sudden currents of wind catch it up and whirl it away in their arms, a trembling captive, or dash it ...
— In the Footprints of the Padres • Charles Warren Stoddard
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Words linked to "Diamond dust" :   ice needle, crystal, H2O, downfall, precipitation, water


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