winter-bound

comparative more winter-bound · superlative most winter-bound

1. Hampered, curtailed, or trapped by winter weather.

   They walked for miles each day, in the churches, galleries and alleys of a winter-bound Venice largely free of tourists, happy in their own company.

   2013, Paul Kildea, Benjamin Britten: A Life in the Twentieth Century

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   If the Skaldi are overly fond of wagering, bickering and drinking among themselves, I learned why: When the men are winter-bound in the confines of the great hall, there is naught else to be done.

   2002, Jacqueline Carey, Kushiel's Dart

   The Commons teemed with airily dressed mothers and unjacketed businessmen, the emotional gloom of a winter-bound populace exposed by the sun to be as seasonally fragile as ice.

   2008, Heidi Julavits, The Uses of Enchantment, page 351

   But all the eating up of shoo-fly pie, and the cooking up of gauzy cumuli of pink candy, and the toffeeing of crab apples, couldn't hide the fact that we were winter-bound.

   2012, Elizabeth Lowry, The Bellini Madonna