The phrase "albeit a cold" is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used to introduce a concession or contrast, indicating that something is true, even if it comes with a qualification or limitation.
Example: "The weather was pleasant, albeit a cold breeze swept through the park."
Alternatives: "though chilly" or "even if it's cold".
There has been peace, albeit a cold peace, between Egypt and Israel ever since.
Most important of all, at least from the western point of view, Mubarak maintained the peace, albeit a cold peace, with Israel and he fortified the US alliance.
He tells me that, during the last ice age, this sea was a plain – a savannah-type landscape, albeit a cold one – that stretched from England to France.
Some Georgians detect a Russian hand behind the opaque events in the Kodori gorge: it is "highly unlikely", says Mr Noghaideli, that the wayward warlord acted alone.In a way, though, Russia and Georgia are already at war, albeit a cold one.
Their country needs help, albeit tightly conditional, not a cold shoulder.
While the Yankees were playing a single game, albeit a long, cold, and rainy one, up in the Bronx, we were double-dipping in more southern….
By Andy Borowitz **{:.break one} ** The discovery of the so-called Hitler Book marks the end of a remarkable hunt through Soviet archives.... Perhaps the most disconcerting revelation... is that Hitler had a sense of humour, albeit a particularly cold one.
While the Yankees were playing a single game, albeit a long, cold, and rainy one, up in the Bronx, we were double-dipping in more southern boroughs, New Yorker Festival-style.
By Ken Marks October 18, 2009 While the Yankees were playing a single game, albeit a long, cold, and rainy one, up in the Bronx, we were double-dipping in more southern boroughs, New Yorker Festival-style.
The discovery of the so-called Hitler Book marks the end of a remarkable hunt through Soviet archives.... Perhaps the most disconcerting revelation... is that Hitler had a sense of humour, albeit a particularly cold one.
Or a cold, cold, cold, cold prickly?
