"robin snow" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1893, Maria Louise Pool, Dally, page 25",
          "text": "Though it was the last of March, there was a \"robin snow\" falling outside, and Mr. Winslow was believed by his family to have a weak throat, though he never manifested any signs of such weakness.",
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          "ref": "1906, Henry David Thoreau, Journal",
          "text": "[page 290:] Observed the track of a squirrel in the snow under one of the apple trees on the southeast side of the Hill, andl, looking up, saw a red squirrel with a nut or piece of frozen apple […] Snowed again last night, as it has done once or twice before within ten days without my recording it, — robin snows, which last but a day or two.\n[page 462:] He says that the most snow we have had this winter (it has not been more than one inch deep) has been only a “robin snow,” as it is called, i.e. a snow which does not drive off the robins.",
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          "ref": "1910, Winthrop Packard, Woodland Paths",
          "text": "[page 68:] Instead, they lay there dead, covering all things a half-inch deep with soft bodies of purest white, and we looked forth in the morning and said that there had been a robin-snow. It is a pity that those gentle, innocent gray-blue spring mists should […]\n[page 69:] A few more robin-snows and they will all be out. Very likely somewhere a dandelion, some sturdy, rough-and-ready youngster, quivered into yellow florescence at the caress. Robin-snows and the cajoling sun of the last week of March often ...",
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          "ref": "1941, Nature Magazine: An Illustrated Monthly with Popular Articles about Nature, page 219",
          "text": "After a half-hour or so they fall again like a \"robin snow\" in spring and resume their feeding, white dots on the olive-brown of the long miles of saw grass that stretch away to the everglades horizon.",
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          "ref": "1947, Mari Sandoz, The Tom-walker: A New Novel",
          "text": "After a robin snow in May, George Shefton went to Denver and so Milton and Stevie set out on the road again, three shoes and a worn pipe-end on the dashboard while Dump and Dolly switched their lazy tails over the lines […]",
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          "ref": "1949, Joseph Nelson, Backwoods Teacher",
          "text": "We had another February snow — a robin snow which came in the night and was gone before noon.",
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          "ref": "1977, Lew Dietz, Night Train at Wiscasset Station",
          "text": "In an earlier day, a snow that fell in April was called a “robin snow.” It was said to draw the last frost from the ground and bring the earthworms to the surface. This white incursion is gratefully brief.",
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        "A light, brief snow."
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        "(US, dialectal, especially New England and New York) A light, brief snow."
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