King Winter en · PROPN
Etymology
Likely from Norwegian Kong Vinter
Meanings
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A personification of winter.
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.
1859, Marion E. Weir, Patience to Work and Patience to Wait, page 110:[…] 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!
1852, William Hurton, A Voyage from Leith to Lapland: Or, Pictures of Scandinavia in 1850, page 261: