snows

noun[plural only]3

1. •
   One or both regions of the Earth where it snows the year round; the Arctic and/or Antarctic.

   • To men legislating for the vast area betwixt the two oceans, betwixt the snows and the tropics, somewhat of the gravity and grandeur of nature will infuse itself into the code. — 1844
2. •
   (informal) Clipping of snow tires.

   • You’d better be wearing your snows next week.
3. •
   (literary, old-fashioned) A woman's pale-coloured breasts.