winter-bound

winter-bound

English

Adjective

winter-bound (comparative more winter-bound, superlative most winter-bound)

1. Hampered, curtailed, or trapped by winter weather.
   • 2002, Jacqueline Carey, Kushiel's Dart:

     If the Skaldi are overly fond of wagering, bickering and drinking among themselves, I learned why: When the men are winter-bound in the confines of the great hall, there is naught else to be done.

   • 2008, Heidi Julavits, The Uses of Enchantment, page 351:

     The Commons teemed with airily dressed mothers and unjacketed businessmen, the emotional gloom of a winter-bound populace exposed by the sun to be as seasonally fragile as ice.

   • 2012, Elizabeth Lowry, The Bellini Madonna:

     But all the eating up of shoo-fly pie, and the cooking up of gauzy cumuli of pink candy, and the toffeeing of crab apples, couldn't hide the fact that we were winter-bound.

   • 2013, Paul Kildea, Benjamin Britten: A Life in the Twentieth Century:

     They walked for miles each day, in the churches, galleries and alleys of a winter-bound Venice largely free of tourists, happy in their own company.