Skip to main content
Glite Dictionary
🏛️ With decorative molding 🏔️ With snow overhang
corniced

corniced

9.9
With an overhanging ledge of snow at the top of a ridge or cliff
  • adjective
  • UK
translation icon : cornisado
  • A corniced cliff can be dangerous because the snow overhang may collapse unexpectedly.

Examples

  • They paused to assess the stability of the corniced summit before continuing their ascent.

  • We carefully approached the corniced edge of the cliff.

  • The mountaineers carefully avoided the corniced section of the ridge to prevent accidents.

  • The mountain was corniced with fresh snow after the storm.

  • The mountaineers carefully avoided the corniced section of the ridge to prevent accidents.

  • A corniced cliff can be dangerous because the snow overhang may collapse unexpectedly.

  • We carefully approached the corniced edge of the cliff.

How Large

massive
236 3.1
extensive
330 4.1
corniced
  • UK
9.9
noticeable
65 3.2
small
∞ 1.0

Surface Forms

corniced positive

Morphology

corniced = cornice (semi-transparent) = cornice + ed

Formed from the noun 'cornice' meaning an overhanging mass of snow plus '-ed'; the structure is regular but the snow sense is specialized and may be unfamiliar to many learners.

Etymology

The word corniced comes from cornice, from Latin cornu meaning 'horn'. Imagine wind pushing snow into a horn-shaped shelf that hangs over a ridge, and so corniced means having an overhanging mass of snow.