né|vé

né|vé
né|vé «nay VAY», noun.
1. the crystalline or granular snow on the upper part of a glacier that has not yet been compressed into ice.
2. a field of such snow; firn.
[< French névé < Swiss French, perhaps dialectal Savoy névi slope or mass of snow < Old French neif snow < Latin nix, nivis snow]

Useful english dictionary. 2012.

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