frore

adjective

1. Extremely cold; frozen.

   archaic

   Expiring in the frore and foggy air.

   We die, even as the winds of Autumn fade,

Where it comes from

From Middle English frore, froare, yfrore, froren, from Old English froren, ġefroren (“frozen”), from Proto-West Germanic *froʀan, from Proto-Germanic *fruzanaz (“frozen”), past participle of Proto-Germanic *freusaną (“to freeze”). Doublet of frorn and frozen.

Adapted from the Wiktionary entry frore (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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