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alt. A decorative object or toy containing a model of a landscape, fluid and suspended white flakes that emulate snowfall when shaken. n. A decorative object or toy containing a model of a landscape, fluid and suspended white flakes that emulate snowfall when shaken.
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A snow globe (also called a "waterglobe", "snowstorm", or "snowdome") is a transparent sphere, traditionally made of glass, enclosing a miniaturized scene of some sort, often together with a model of a landscape. The sphere also encloses the water in the globe; the water serves as the medium through which the "snow" falls. To activate the snow, the globe is shaken to churn up the white particles. The globe is then placed back in its position and the flakes fall down slowly through the water. Snow globes sometimes have a built-in music box that plays a song. Some snow globes have a design around the outerbase for decoration.
Snow Globe is the fifteenth studio album by English synthpop duo Erasure. The album was released through Mute Records on 11 November 2013 in the UK, and 12 November 2013 in North America. The album has a holiday music theme, including classic Christmas carols with original tracks written by band members Vince Clarke and Andy Bell.
The band purposely went with a "stripped-down" and "eerie" feel to many of the tracks. Clarke has stated, "Everything about Christmas has been written already. We thought it would be more interesting to look into the darker side of the season. For a lot of people, Christmas is not a happy time." The album was produced with longtime collaborator Gareth Jones.
Snow Globe was preceded by the first single " Gaudete" on 28 October, a medieval Latin carol that was also a hit for Steeleye Span in 1973. The second CD of the limited edition of Snow Globe also includes an acoustic cover version of the 1980s Christmas pop hit " Stop the Cavalry" by Jona Lewie.
Commercial response to the album was limited, Snow Globe appeared briefly at the lower reaches of the albums charts peaking at #49 in the UK and at #100 in Germany. The album reached #5 in the UK indie albums chart and #30 in US indie album chart.
Usage examples of "snow globe".
Below him, the city looked like a child's snow globe, shaken to produce a cascade of gentle snowflakes over the great monuments, all within view.
Afterwards, he got up and walked away with his newspaper and postcards and Hermitage snow globe and other mementoes.
Jorge Vargas felt as if he were trapped within an enormous snow globe, the toy of a monstrous giant.
Vergetta confided to the snow globe on the table as Niki dragged in the first invitee.
They come back to me, the scattered days of that summer with the Object, each encased in a souvenir snow globe.
It seemed impossibly strange somehow, McFarlane thought, to be trudging through the center of this nothingness, this child's snow globe of white, toward a huge mysterious rock and the grave of his former partner—.
In his den, my father reached out to hold the snow globe in his hand.
He pulled a snow globe out of his pocket, and his sandy brows went up.