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1694 tr. F. Martens Voy. Spitzbergen ii. iii. 37 in Narbrough's Acct. Several Late Voy. Just as Ice flowers on our Glass-windows, get all sorts of figures.

1790 E. Darwin Bot. Garden (ed. 2) II. 163 So with pellucid studs the ice-flower gems Her rimy foliage, and her candid stems.

1846 M. Howitt tr. F. H. W. von Paalzow Citizen of Prague iii. iv. 84/1 He only found it comfortable in his own little chamber, although it was cold here as the winter came on. Turf and wood he purchased by penny-worths, and it froze great ice-flowers upon his windows.

1884 E. Fawcett Song & Story 13 Grown beneath his hand, Lilian, his orphan grandchild, seemed to some Cold as the silvery ice-flower on a pane.

1911 J. Masefield Jim Davis iii. 26 The frost had covered the window with ice-flowers, so that we could not see through the glass.

1955 Arctic Terms 42/1 Ice flower, a delicate tuft of frost or rime, resembling a fern or flower, that occasionally forms on surface sea ice around a salt crystal nucleus.

1996 M. Burgess Junk (1997) xvi. 148 Today there was another frost and all yesterday's crystals had more crystals growing up them, like fairy land. Ice flowers everywhere you look.