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FROSTED
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Dictionary entry overview: What does frosted mean?
• FROSTED (adjective)
The adjective FROSTED has 1 sense:
1. (of glass) having a roughened coating resembling frost
Familiarity information: FROSTED used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
(of glass) having a roughened coating resembling frost
Context example:
frosted glass
Similar:
opaque (not transmitting or reflecting light or radiant energy; impenetrable to sight)
Context examples
Their eyelashes were frosted white, as were their muzzles, and they had all the seeming of decrepit old age, what of the frost-rime and exhaustion.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
I tried to look out of the windows to see something of where we were, but they were made of frosted glass, and I could make out nothing save the occasional bright blur of a passing light.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
A breeze blew through the room, blew curtains in at one end and out the other like pale flags, twisting them up toward the frosted wedding cake of the ceiling—and then rippled over the wine-colored rug, making a shadow on it as wind does on the sea.
(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)
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