DCHP-1 Online
pomme de neige [< Cdn F] Obs. 
a juicy fall apple having crisp, white flesh and red skin when ripe.
See also: snow apple
- 1807 (1809) The apples are particularly good--The Pomme de Neige, so called from its being extremely white, and from its having the granulated appearance of snow, when broken; it dissolves, almost entirely, in the mouth like snow. . . .
- 1853 . . . last year gave me upwards of a hundred bushels of . . . the Ribstone pippin, Newtown pippin, Pearmain, Pomme-de-gris, Pomme-de-neige and many other sorts equally good.
- 1807 (1809) The apples are particularly good--The Pomme de Neige, so called from its being extremely white, and from its having the granulated appearance of snow, when broken; it dissolves, almost entirely, in the mouth like snow. . . .