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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Exiting Raffles onto the busy road, I noticed across the street the spire of a snow-white Gothic chapel with stained glass windows.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 27, 2025
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
Her massive, snow-white body is watched over by security cameras, a veterinarian and an armed guard.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 3, 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
I turned and lifted a corner of my pillow, and underneath it, on the snow-white sheet, there lay a beautiful golden sovereign with the head of King George V on its uppermost side.
From "Boy: Tales of a Childhood" by Roald Dahl
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