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King Winter
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English
Etymology
Likely from en no Kong Vinter
Proper noun
King Winter
A personification of winter.
en 1852 w:William Hurton A Voyage from Leith to Lapland: Or, Pictures of Scandinavia in 1850 https://archive.org/details/avoyagefromleit00hurtgoog 261 but here Midsummer and Winter were hand in hand—the icy throne of King Winter, and the green, flowery footstool of Queen Summer, being literally in contact!
en 1859 Marion E. Weir Patience to Work and Patience to Wait https://archive.org/details/patiencetoworkpa00weir 110 Hard would it have been for the voyagers on the Pacific Ocean to realize that summer evening, as the stately ship glided swiftly and noiselessly over the waters, that old King Winter was then reigning in all his glory over the shores which they had quitted not two months before.
See also
en Jack Frost
en Old Man Winter
en Personifications Weather Winter