snowcastle

plural snowcastles

1. alternativeAlternative form of snow castle.

   We are far too serious about everything. Why don’t we just laugh, roll around in the snow, build a snowcastle.

   1987, Uma Parameswaran, Rootless But Green are the Boulevard Trees, Toronto, Ont.: TSAR Publications, →ISBN, page 48

   2 more examples

   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.

   1970, Christy Brown, chapter XIX, in Down All the Days, London: Secker & Warburg, →ISBN, page 121

   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.

   1980, J[ohn] M[axwell] Coetzee, Waiting for the Barbarians, Harmondsworth, Middlesex: Penguin Books, published 1986, →ISBN, pages 9 and 37