snow-white
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- adjective
- /snoʊ waɪt/
:
blanco como la nieve
- TC wore new razor-creased Levis and a snow-white T-shirt, a blue cap set high and slanted on his sunglasses.
- snow-white hair
- snow-white wings
- snow-white beard
Examples
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As always, he wore his dress uniform, a gleaming scarlet jacket with a snow-white sash and his insignia of office.
Fiction book (1992) -
Mrs. James took a snow-white rag from her apron pocket and wiped the windowsill.
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My mother brought me back a piece of snow-white cake.
Fiction book (1995) -
There was something on it that looked like a snow-white bubble, the most beautiful thing I could see.
Fiction book (1991) -
Pulling on a pair of snow-white kid gloves, thin as new skin, he counts his fingers: all there.
Fiction book (2000) -
Harry enters the office, doffs his hat, revealing a full head of snow-white hair.
Fiction book (2001) -
"The bride-to-be is ravishingly lovely in a snow-white chiffon frock by Telleur."
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The portcullis is raised by men-at-arms, admitting a spectacular crimson carriage pulled by a team of snow-white stallions.
Fiction book (1993) -
The walls and ceiling were painted snow-white; the chairs were persimmon and cobalt.
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Finally, at 4:00 a.m., we eased into the stark, bright, snow-white, tiled operating room.
Synonyms
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1.0
A very light color that reflects most visible light like snow
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White like fresh snow
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4.0
A very light, shiny white color like a pearl
A pure bright white color like fresh paint
Antonyms
How White
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Snow-white is simply the two common words snow and white put together to mean 'white like snow'. That's why snow-white describes something very pure or bright in color, like freshly fallen snow.