A thing of the past. Literally, “last year’s snows.”
“Where are the snows of yester-year?”
Rossetti.
“The whole has melted away like the neiges dʹantan.”—Nineteenth Century, June, 1891, p. 893.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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