snowglobes? snowdomes?

[Patti J. Kurtz]

I call them "snow globes."  And in a young adult novel, published  in
2003, it says:  "She picks up one of my snow globes and shakes it.
Silver snow falls on four tiny fiddlers in Nashville.  Dad still brings
me a globe every time he goes on a business trip.  No CDs or T-shirts of
video games-- I get snow globes."

(from "not As Crazy As I Seem" by George Harrar, Graphia Books, 2003.)

So at least to that writer, "snow globes" is the current term.

Patti Kurtz

SClements at NEO.RR.COM wrote:

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>Poster:       Sam Clements <SClements at NEO.RR.COM>
>Subject:      snowglobes?  snowdomes?
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>You know.  Those things that your grandmother had, the glass ball on a =
>stand, that had stuff inside that, when inverted or shaken, caused the =
>snow to fall through the liquid, perhaps around a scene.
>
>We have a column by Unca Cecil over at Straight Dope and some comments =
>from members there.  =
>http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=3D307759
>
>My question is:  What were these things commonly called in the 1900-1950 =
>period, and are they known as something else in the last 20 years.
>
>Sam Clements
>
>

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