Meanings
alternative snow-mantled
- Covered in snow.
This is well to the north of the Alps, of course, and the absence of snowmantled mountain summits doubtless is one reason for the neglect, though the bold rocky massif of the Santis and the jagged parallel range of the Churfirsten, on the southern edge of the region, are an excellent substitute.
1956 January, 'Mercury', “The Railways of North-East Switzerland”, in Railway Magazine, page 18
Origin
From snow + mantled, and the verb mantle.
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