青せい女じょ

noun

goddess of frost and snow; frost and snow

Literary term from the Huainanzi, referring to the goddess who brings frost and snow, or by extension frost and snow themselves. Rare in modern everyday language.

• 青せい女じょが降おりた朝あさ、庭にわは一いち面めんの霜しもで覆おおわれていた。

  On the morning when the goddess of frost descended, the garden was covered in frost.

• この詩しには青せい女じょの厳きびしさが描えがかれている。

  This poem depicts the severity of frost and snow.