Definition of "niveous" [niv•e•ous]

• Resembling snow; snowy. (adjective)

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• "Roofless walls of niveous stone and truncated alabaster columns, never completed and now wreathed by thick vines, covered the leveled top of the mountain."
• "Strong, slender fingers tested the niveous marble carvings of the wall, and then she was climbing like a monkey."
• "As there be tides in the affairs of men which taken at the flood lead on to fortune, so there be waves which straddled at the proper time will bear a Halliwell on their niveous crest to the dizzy heights of fame, quicker'n the nictitation of a thomas-cat."