(n.) The track or tread a horseman makes upon the ground he goes over.
Example Sentences:
(1) I finally found my trusty rubber friend amongst kirby grips and tissues, and clumsily put it on, adding buoyantly: “I’m really looking forward to this!” Everything was then going tickety-boo until my rubber friend went off-piste and wedged itself stubbornly somewhere between my cervix and uterus.
(2) "Lean forward," shouts Barnie, as I tentatively point my skis, in a slight snowplough, down the Ariondaz piste.
(3) Several villages, each linked to the piste, makes up Serre Chevalier.
(4) Here are some examples: in Chamonix , Chamois Blanc 7 is a cute little apartment, with modern decor and lots of pine panelling, sleeping four from €600 in February and March, or €500 in April; while in the Tarentaise, 20 minutes from lovely Sainte-Foy , which has nice runs, great hiking into the backcountry and is within a short drive of La Rosière and Les Arcs, La Tillette is a super-stylish modern chalet sleeping eight, with massive windows and white interiors, L'Occitane toiletries and off-piste skiing to the door.
(6) Most accidents (84%) happened on the pistes and ski lifts were involved in about 6% of them.
(7) The setting sun casts shadows over parts of the piste, and it's so quiet that, like on a country walk, when I see another person, we say hello.
(8) The scale, variety and superior grooming of Courchevel's pistes, along with its lift systems and snowmaking, means learners and intermediates have some of the best snow in the Alps.
(9) Ride a Snooc, Le Grand Bornand, France Hiking off into the wilderness and finding peace away from the pistes is one of the most rewarding things to do in the mountains.
(10) We start out in Courchevel Moriond (previously 1650) on the blue runs around Ariondaz, where the wide pistes are in tip-top condition, thanks to a bumper dump of snow a few days earlier.
(11) Chalet La Falaise in Les Carroz , which has 144 pistes in Le Grand Massif , sleeps 10 in four bedrooms, and costs £1,600 for the whole self-catering property for the weeks starting 2 and 9 March.
(12) After a couple of days tearing around this undulating terrain, stopping for coffee and Kuchen in cosy places such as Berghotel Körbersee, where I had to step over a snoozing St Bernard to access the toilet, I ventured further into the backcountry with the Warth ski school , whose range of guided off-piste excursions is more original than any I have seen.
(13) There are loads of wide and gentle slopes, perfect for beginners and improvers, with 43% of the pistes graded blue (easy).
(14) Since the former mayor Eugen Larcher managed to convince authorities to open up the nearby glacier to skiers and hikers in the 1960s, the valley has become an upmarket slow-travel destination: close to nearby skiing pistes but not overrun by tourists, with high-speed broadband and a newly built spa.
(15) Luckily, there’s plenty of that nearby, which was the other reason I was here: to combine mountains and movies, popcorn and pistes.
(16) That will be like giving a medal to a ski instructor for leading his group off-piste down a closed black run and pulling them out alive from the ensuing avalanche.
(17) But BuzzFeed – like the Huffington Post, where Peretti started his digital career – doesn't compete across the piste.
(18) Highlights were when Spencer went a bit off piste from the classic look: an apple green parka, sweater with square motif and boxy suede jacket were welcome bits of modernity.
(19) Walking routes marked are in purple on the piste map, along with the red, blue and black runs.
(20) Once your children are up and skiing, there are themed areas on the mountain that add a touch of magic and story telling, such as the Piste of the Wicked Fairy Godmother in Courchevel Moriond, and the Indians Piste, where children go in search of the Grey Wolf and the Chief of the Indian tribe.
Slush
Definition:
(n.) Soft mud.
(n.) A mixture of snow and water; half-melted snow.
(n.) A soft mixture of grease and other materials, used for lubrication.
(n.) The refuse grease and fat collected in cooking, especially on shipboard.
(n.) A mixture of white lead and lime, with which the bright parts of machines, such as the connecting rods of steamboats, are painted to be preserved from oxidation.
(v. t.) To smear with slush or grease; as, to slush a mast.
(v. t.) To paint with a mixture of white lead and lime.
Example Sentences:
(1) Der Spiegel magazine reported on Friday that Germany’s bid committee had tapped into a slush fund of €6.7m to buy votes at world football’s governing body Fifa.
(2) The development of postoperative CD was related to topical cooling with slushed ice and lower myocardial temperature of the left ventricle, but not to kinds of diseases, duration of aortic cross-clamp, or the distribution of RC-CBCP evaluated from myocardial temperature at the end of initial infusion of cold cardioplegic solution.
(3) Bárcenas denies any wrongdoing and when allegations about the slush fund first surfaced, in January 2013, he received a text message of support.
(4) Cold air storage appears to provide better lung preservation than hypothermic immersion in ice slush.
(5) Still, as the crisp white stuff beloved of children turns into freezing grey slush, it's worth another laugh at the old British Rail " wrong type of snow " excuse.
(6) The prime minister announced on Monday the establishment of the inquiry to be headed by the former High Court judge John Dyson Heydon with a focus on union slush funds, bribery and improper fundraising.
(7) He said Jackson used $284,000 in the National Health Development Account, a slush fund she set up in 2003, without authorisation.
(8) The fiber-dimensional hygrometer yielded mean aw values and precision estimates that did not differ significantly from those obtained with the electrical hygrometers for (NH4)2SO4slush, KNO3 slush, sweetened condensed milk, pancake syrup, and cheese spread.
(9) This latest saga has left Territorians with questions about the integrity of the Territory’s decision makers,” she told media in Darwin, citing a recent scandal around an alleged Country-Liberal party slush fund as well as the police troubles.
(10) Earlier: The Pentagon’s slush fund is arming a War Zone on Main Street – let’s end the local-cop addiction to backyard battle
(11) Berlusconi's remarks, combined with allegations at the weekend of a colossal slush fund at a bank traditionally close to the left, looked set to electrify a hitherto lacklustre campaign.
(12) What Bárcenas claims is that the People's party has been running a slush fund for nearly two decades.
(13) Luis Bárcenas, the PP’s former treasurer, is accused of organising a slush fund for senior party members, allegedly raised through the handing out of dodgy public sector contracts.
(14) But the latest scandal has added to longstanding fears that the company is treated as a tool for politicians to reward loyalists and generate slush funds to buy off potential opponents.
(15) One witness who gave evidence to the SFO, Peter Gardiner, a director of a travel agent used to make alleged slush fund payments, said last night: "It's an interesting signal that this gives to industry and the world I am thinking of the hundreds of hours I have wasted and all the personal problems this has caused me."
(16) Coronary artery bypass surgery was performed on a 58-year-old female under cold cardioplegia with topical ice slush cooling.
(17) Spiegel said that both Franz Beckenbauer, who headed the bidding committee, and Wolfgang Niersbach, the current president of the German football federation (DFB), as well as other high-ranking football officials were aware of the slush fund by 2005 at the latest.
(18) There was talk of Josef Ackermann, the head of Deutsche Bank, taking over, but Ackermann's hopes have been dented somewhat by recent accusations of an involvement in dirty slush funds .
(19) This is a get-out-of-jail card for councils that were using the money as a social care slush-fund.
(20) Last Thursday the CLP shut down an inquiry into the past two decades of political donations in the NT, as well as the nature of the Foundation 51 organisation – alleged to be a CLP slush fund – claiming it would be “unwieldy” and overly costly for the territory.