"snowbelt" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From snow + belt.",
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      "form": "snowbelts",
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  "pos": "noun",
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        "An area that is characterized by heavy annual snowfall."
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          "ref": "1966, Climatological Data, page 229:",
          "text": "Monthly totals of less than 6 inches fell in western, central, and east-central sections, with the exception of the Great Lakes snowbelt, where totals ranged from as much as 9 inches along Lake Erie up to 16 inches along the eastern shore of Lake Ontario, amounts well below normal for the snowbelt in December.",
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          "ref": "1984, Daniel Roland Fusfeld, Timothy Bates, Timothy Mason Bates, The Political Economy of the Urban Ghetto, page 99:",
          "text": "Government employment has produced long-term job growth in both snowbelt and sunbelt central cities.",
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          "ref": "1996, Leonard Peacefull, A Geography of Ohio:",
          "text": "Higher elevations and snow squalls from Lake Erie give Chardon, located in the core of the snowbelt in northern Geauga County, an average snowfall of 105 inches.",
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        "Especially, the area around the Great Lakes in the north-eastern United States."
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        "(also with capital) Especially, the area around the Great Lakes in the north-eastern United States."
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        },
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          "ref": "1996, Leonard Peacefull, A Geography of Ohio:",
          "text": "Higher elevations and snow squalls from Lake Erie give Chardon, located in the core of the snowbelt in northern Geauga County, an average snowfall of 105 inches.",
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