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What is "cold spell"

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
cold spell
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A cold spell simply halts flowering for a little while.
▪ Apart from the brief cold spell in late November, we have had very few hard frosts.
▪ Here, a sharp cold spell in spring may produce a narrow growth ring.
▪ Not even the yawning chasms in the road caused by freeze-thaw action during the recent cold spell can upset it.
▪ They had moved in from the garden during a cold spell in November.
WordNet
cold spell

n. a spell of cold weather [syn: cold snap]

Wikipedia
Cold Spell

Cold Spell is an album by American keyboardist and composer Wayne Horvitz' band Zony Mash recorded in 1997 and released on the independent Knitting Factory label.

Usage examples of "cold spell".

The two students had obviously used a cold spell to extinguish the blaze.

Three of them share the same property as the gemstone known as serpentine: They afford the same magical protection as a priestly resist fire or resist cold spell.

It permanently protects the user as a Resist Cold spell and can Protection From Good its possessor thrice per day at the 12th level of use.

There are degrees of neutrality, just as there are degrees of unfaithfulness: one may forgive a woman an occasional cold spell, but not her continued and smiling repose in other men's arms.

Those cannoneers will wait and hope for a cold spell, to freeze all the open ground, so the shells will go off on impact, or skitter around before they explode, and inflict the most havoc possible.