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Verglas

Verglas may refer to:

  • Verglas Music, a record label which has released works such as Jabberwocky, a 1999 progressive rock album
  • Verglas, a climbing term referring to a thin coating of glaze ice on rock (also of common usage in French)
  • Antoine Verglas (born 1962), photographer of models such as those painted by Joanne Gair, and of singers such as Gloria Estefan
  • Petit Verglas, first novel of Riad Sattouf, a French writer and cartoonist

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Usage examples of "verglas".

The climber had been less than helpful during this part of our ascent anyway, and the alternative was just to wait here as the sweat began to chill and solidify in my outer garments, or to try some other route, possibly abseiling down into the jagged wasteland of crevasses below the verglas cliff.

The bang of each fresh bolt, the hot tensing of my arms, the sway of the verglas crust in the moment before it crumbled.

I could see only verglas slipping further and further from the vertical.

I climbed unaided, just relishing the true solid feel of the rock, the absence of any barrier between me and anything, the taste and the smell of this planet, the loss of verglas, the true sense of being here.

His colorless eyes remind me of ice, or perhaps verglas might be the better description.