snow castle

plural snow castles · alternative snowcastle

1. Synonym of snow fort.

   When the enjoyable snow castle melts in the spring a positive image remains until it is time for snow to fall again.

   1996, Helka-Liisa Hentilä, “Finland”, in Voula Mega, editor, Innovations for the Improvement of the Urban Environment: Austria – Finland – Sweden, Loughlinstown, Co. Dublin: European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions, →ISBN, page 165

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   When Scandinavian children play at building snow castles and throwing snowballs at one another they can have no idea that their games are rooted in ancient tradition.

   1988, Bent Rying, translated by Reginald Spink, “Urban Politician”, in Danish in the South and the North, volume 2 (Denmark: History), Copenhagen: The Royal Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, →ISBN, page 68

   Outside, the moon shined brightly on the snow and the world existed only in shades of blue. Snow, snow, everywhere—snow. A cathedral of trees. A holy realm of ice. The only church she had ever needed. She used to imagine her mother playing in the yard, building snow castles or chasing fireflies. But Mommy had never lived in Bitterly, […]

   2015, Terri-Lynne DeFino, Seeking Carolina (A Bitterly Suite Romance), New York, N.Y.: Lyrical Press, Kensington Publishing Corp., →ISBN, page 23

   Synonyms: snow fort