What is "snow-capped"

Usage examples of "snow-capped".

ON MARCH 24, in the Bay of Biscay, Adams could see by telescope the snow-capped mountains of Spain.

Snow-capped peaks, connected by saddlelike ridges, stretched as far as he could see.

His next-door neighbor stared out of the window as the Aegean Sea passed beneath them and the airliner left the sunny spring of the eastern Mediterranean for the snow-capped peaks of the Dolomites and the Bavarian Alps.

French as the discoverers not merely of the northern and western valleys, of the Adirondacks, in whose shadows Champlain and Brule and Father Jogues fought with the Iroquois and suffered torture, and of the snow-capped Rockies at whose feet Chevalier de la Verendrye was obliged to turn back, but also of the tops of the white hills near the Atlantic coast, which I have often seen lighted at sunrise while the lower slopes and valleys were in darkness or shadow--hills touched by the French, as by that rising sun, only at their tops and by the trails of their eyes.

To the east of this big valley were foothills rising to mountains much bigger than the coastal range, snow-capped (indicated by dandelion fluff) and holding in their midst a big lake or two.

He had been holidaying with his family on Mars, flying past the awesome, snow-capped peak of Nix Olympicamightiest volcano in the solar system.

To the south, a towering range of mountains, snow-capped and misty in the distance, lay as a barrier east and west.

Highest altitude, 9056 feet, Mount Teon located at north end, which, though snow-capped in colder months, blocks incle­ment storms.

Beyond the timber line, the rocky slopes towered up to snow-capped peaks.