cold spell

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cold spell - a spell of cold weather

cold snap

while, spell, patch, piece - a period of indeterminate length (usually short) marked by some action or condition; "he was here for a little while"; "I need to rest for a piece"; "a spell of good weather"; "a patch of bad weather"

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cold snap
patch
piece

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while

Then suddenly I came to myself (though that was the only time during the evening's play when fear cast its cold spell over me, and showed itself in a trembling of the hands and knees).

The Gambler by Dostoyevsky, Fyodor View in context

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