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blizzard [origin uncertain but probably from English dialect source] 
n. a snowstorm accompanied by high winds and intense cold.
- 1866 [[Advert.] THE BLIZZARD SALOON, Front St., New Westminster.]
- 1880 . . . the stage-driver's description of a blizzard [was] . . . "one o' them 'ere mountain storms as gets up on its hind legs and howls."
- 1936 A "blizzard" is not properly a storm of falling snow, though often so called. It is a snow wind-storm, only possible on open plains, and often occurs under a cloudless sky [in the West].
- 1963 Will the occasional shivering Chinese, caught in a Saskatchewan blizzard, cry out that they ought to give the country back to the Canadians?
- 1866 [[Advert.] THE BLIZZARD SALOON, Front St., New Westminster.]