snowperson

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snow +‎ person

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snowperson (plural snowpersons or snowpeople)

  1. (uncommon) Snow sculpted into a human figure, a snow figure: a snowman or snowwoman.
    • 2009 February 4, Jess Cartner-Morley, “What fashionable snowmen are wearing in 2009”, in The Guardian[1]:
      For a snowperson, fashion is all in the accessories.
    • 2021 July 1, Chelsey Hamm, Samuel Brady, Open Music Theory[2], Inversion and Figured Bass:
      You might think of first inversion triads as looking like a snowperson whose feet have been moved above their head [...]

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