"snowcastle" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Forms: snowcastles [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} snowcastle (plural snowcastles)
  1. Alternative form of snow castle. Tags: alt-of, alternative Alternative form of: snow castle
    Sense id: en-snowcastle-en-noun-9mzGj3Ph Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries

Inflected forms

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          "ref": "1970, Christy Brown, chapter XIX, in Down All the Days, London: Secker & Warburg, →ISBN, page 121:",
          "text": "He heard the sound of the snow everywhere in the air about him, hiding the sores and scars and pockmarks, the moulding, gnarled ugliness of things that hurt and hounded him. One day he would build a snowcastle far away from where people could find it and live brightly there forever with all that dazzle and delight.",
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          "ref": "1980, J[ohn] M[axwell] Coetzee, Waiting for the Barbarians, Harmondsworth, Middlesex: Penguin Books, published 1986, →ISBN, pages 9 and 37:",
          "text": "As I glide across the square, dark figures separate out from the whiteness, children at play building a snowcastle on top of which they have planted a little red flag. […] I am trudging across the snow of an endless plain towards a group of tiny figures playing around a snowcastle.",
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          "ref": "1987, Uma Parameswaran, Rootless But Green are the Boulevard Trees, Toronto, Ont.: TSAR Publications, →ISBN, page 48:",
          "text": "We are far too serious about everything. Why don’t we just laugh, roll around in the snow, build a snowcastle.",
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