Citations:snap

English citations of snap

Noun

"Period of weather"

					1892
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1892, Ambrose Bierce, “The Woful Tale of Mr. Peters”, in Black Beetles in Amber, San Francisco & New York: Western Authors Publishing Co., page 116:

It happened in the hot snap which we recently incurred, / When 'twas warm enough to carbonize the feathers of a bird, / And men exclaimed: “By Hunky!” who were bad enough to swear, / And pious persons supervised their adjectives with care.