hoarfrost

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Exhalations seem to suspend in the rarified air, and on sunny days, the atmosphere shimmers with a million microscopic flashes, a hoarfrost with nothing to cling to but exposed skin and hair.

From Salon • May 29, 2023

The 1959 watercolor shows the moon just edging above the horizon with the sky so cold that the stars seem to have frozen to the firmament like hoarfrost on a window.

From Washington Post • Jan. 1, 2020

Stars illuminate the darkness as a thin coat of hoarfrost begins to form on the grass outside my window.

From The Guardian • Feb. 8, 2019

Because if you two look at your reflection in a mirror, what you’ll see is a commitment in progress  —  a bond forming like hoarfrost that is variously permanent.

From The Verge • Oct. 27, 2018

His hair fell from beneath his helm in a heavy braid touched with hoarfrost, and the blacks he wore were so faded they might have been greys.

From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin