frostwork

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Any naturally occurring intricate pattern of ice crystals

Frostwork keeps its place on the window within three feet of the stove all day in my chamber. – Thoreau, H., Winter: From the Journal of Henry D. Thoreau, Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1888, p 343.

{i} pattern created by frost (i.e. on glass); decorative design made to resemble frost on glass
The figurework, often fantastic and delicate, which moisture sometimes forms in freezing, as upon a window pane or a flagstone
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