Meaning & use
verglas
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A thin coating of ice on rock or ground, especially one that forms a hazard for climbers or hikers.
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The climbers turned back after encountering treacherous verglas on the ridge.
A layer of verglas made the mountain trail dangerously slick.
A note on using this word
Verglas is a French loanword adopted into English mountaineering vocabulary for a nearly invisible, glassy ice coating on rock.
Words with a similar meaning
black ice
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