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Weather-bound   /wˈɛðər-baʊnd/   Listen
Weather-bound

adjective
1.
Delayed or shut in by bad weather.  "Irritable weather-bound children"





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"Weather-bound" Quotes from Famous Books



... alone: when I got to the top the rain was pelting hard; so there I stayed happily weather-bound for an hour looking over Venice "silvered with slants of rain," and watching umbrellas scuttering below with toes beneath them. The golden smolder was very slow in coming: it lay over the mainland and came creeping along the railway track. Then came the glitter and the sun, and I turned round ...
— An Englishwoman's Love-Letters • Anonymous


Words linked to "Weather-bound" :   confined


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