snow flake

See also: snow-flake and snowflake

English

Noun

snow flake (plural snow flakes)

  1. Alternative form of snowflake.
    • 1941 March 28, J. W. Kennedy, “Haven”, in The Southern Churchman, volume 107, number 17, Richmond, Va.: Southern Churchman Co., published 26 April 1941, →OCLC, page 3, column 2:
      Tomorrow we’ll restore. Get the past up and out, forgiveness (that is, regeneration) will result, and confusion will melt as a crystalled snow flake in the ’morrow’s sun.
    • 2006 December 8, Associated Press, “Steelers run over Browns”, in Los Angeles Times‎[1], Los Angeles, Calif.: Los Angeles Times Communications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 10 August 2025:
      The Steelers (6-7) withstood temperatures in the teens, a wind chill that was below zero in the second half and an occasional snow flake to win their seventh in a row against their Rust Belt rival, following up a 41-0 rout in Cleveland last December and a 24-20 comeback victory last month in Cleveland.
    • 2010 December 27, Andrew McCorkell, “Freezing weather set to return across the country”, in Alan Rusbridger, editor, The Guardian‎[2], London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 31 December 2019:
      Punters had bet £600,000 – making it the biggest white Christmas bet recorded in this country – but the Met Office, which uses the fall of single snow flake as a definition, only recorded a white Christmas in Aberdeen, Glasgow, Albemarle in the north-east, Church Fenton in Leeds and Waddington in Lincolnshire.
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