snow-white
See also: Snow White and snow white
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From Middle English snow whit, snowe-white, snouwite, snawhwit, from Old English snāwhwīt, from Proto-West Germanic *snaiwhwīt, from Proto-Germanic *snaiwahwītaz; equivalent to snow + white. Cognate with Dutch sneeuwwit (“snow-white”), German schneeweiß (“snow-white”), Swedish snövit (“snow-white”).
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snow-white (not comparable)
- As white as snow; exceptionally white.
- Synonym: lily-white
- 1880, Sabine Baring-Gould, Curious Myths of the Middle Ages, page 449:
- One day he wandered to the banks of the Rhine. On its discolored waters swam a snow-white swan, playfully pulling at the rope which bound a small skiff to the shore.
- 1982 August 14, Mary Ann Peacott, Liz Nania, “BT's In Boston”, in Gay Community News, volume 10, number 5, page 12:
- It was also a delight to see a racially mixed band from Boston. Too bad that the crowd was snow white. We've all still got a helluva long way to go.
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as white as snow
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snow-white (plural snow-whites)