All 6 Uses of
glacier
in
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
- Notre-Dame de Paris has not, like the Abbey of Tournus, the grave and massive frame, the large and round vault, the glacial bareness, the majestic simplicity of the edifices which have the rounded arch for their progenitor.†
Chpt 1.3.1 *glacial = relating to glaciers; perhaps moving very slowly like a glacier
- "Yes, truly," replied the young man, and fell back into his glacial and absent-minded silence.†
Chpt 2.7.1
- Hence the welcome accorded to the gypsy was marvellously glacial.†
Chpt 2.7.1
- The austere and glacial envelope of Claude Frollo, that cold surface of steep and inaccessible virtue, had always deceived Jehan.†
Chpt 2.7.4
- The priest broke the silence at length, by saying, in a tranquil but glacial tone,— "How do you do, Master Pierre?"†
Chpt 2.10.1
- From the moment of that troop's passing, some agitation had pierced through the archdeacon's glacial envelope.†
Chpt 2.10.1
Definition:
a large mass of ice that moves over land like an exceedingly slow river
The form glacial, in addition to meaning relates to a glacier, can mean:
The form glacial, in addition to meaning relates to a glacier, can mean:
- moves very slowly (like a glacier)
- relates to a geological time period when much of the earth was covered with glaciers
- relates to ice or cold (often metaphorically) -- as in "She gave me a glacial stare."
Glaciers are thought of as moving very slowly and slow ones may move as little as a foot or two a year, but there are also fast-moving glaciers that can move as much as ninety feet per day.