adjective
- a covering to protect paper (eg. books, maps) resembling lamination
- [Anyone know a better definition? Something to do with snow and/or mountaineering perhaps?]
Source:
“He opened the first book. It was full of wonderful new words. Transpaseal, for example. Now there was a word that did what it said on the tin. There was more; there were the words and names for variations in snow and snowflake: plates and stellars, columns and needles, spatial dentrites, capped columns and graupels. Graupels! Wonderful. Here was what Michael was looking for, a whole new language.”
Smith, Ali.the accidental. New York: Random House, 2007: 263.
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