snow-white
Americanadjective
adjective
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white as snow
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pure as white snow
Etymology
Origin of snow-white
before 1000; Middle English; Old English snāwhwīt
Example Sentences
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Orris shares these stories with Timble, a snow-white owl with luminous yellow eyes who visits the barn each day at dusk “in a rush of wings and night air.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 16, 2026
Celmins’ 1968 drawings of old black-and-white photographs torn from history books — a 1930s zeppelin airship, Hiroshima’s nearly obliterated 1945 landscape — begin with a sheet of paper prepared with a ground of snow-white acrylic.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 4, 2024
Sinwar, who has striking snow-white hair and jet-black eyebrows, is the leader of Hamas's political wing in Gaza, and one of Israel's most wanted men.
From BBC ● Nov. 20, 2023
Curled up in a zoo in central Nicaragua, eyes alert and ears pricked, a puma is nursing her month-old snow-white cub.
From Reuters ● Aug. 24, 2023
Tom Crean, another Irishman and a tough sailor, had also been south with Shackleton before, and proudly wore Britain’s snow-white Polar Medal on his jacket.
From "Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World" by Jennifer Armstrong
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