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Snow-white. World English Historical Dictionary Dictionary Biographies Literary Criticism Welcome Terms of Service ⧏ Previous Next ⧐ Contents Slice Contents Key Bibliographic Record Murray’s New English Dictionary. 1919, rev. 2025. Snow-white a. and sb. Forms: (see SNOW sb.1 and WHITE a.). [f. SNOW sb.1 Cf. Fris. sniewit, MDu. sne(e)wit (Du. sneeuwwit), MLG. snewit, MHG. snêwîz (G. schneeweiss), ON. snǽ-, snjóhvítr (Sw. snöhvit, Da. snehvid).]

1   A.  adj. 1. White as snow; pure white.

2   α.  c. 1000.  Ælfric, in Assmann, Ags. Hom., iv. 186. Ða ʓesloh hine sona se snawhwita hreofla.

3 a. 1200.  St. Marher., 18. The hude snaw hwit swartete as hit snarchte.

4 c. 1205.  Lay., 24521. Þreo snau-white culueren.

5 a. 1225.  Leg. Kath., 2443. Heo … strahte forð swiftliche þe snawhwite swire.

6 1596.  Dalrymple, trans. Leslie’s Hist. Scot., I. 29. Oxne and Bules snawquhyte with a mane thick.

7 1791.  Burns, Tam o’ Shanter, 154. Snaw-white seventeen hunder linnen!

8   β.  c. 1200.  Trin. Coll. Hom., 115. Þe engles þe wið þe apostles stoden mid snouwite shrude.

9 a. 1225.  Ancr. R., 314. Efter his deaðe, he com one niht…, ine snou hwite cloðes.

10 c. 1386.  Chaucer, Sec. Nun’s T., 254. Tuo corunes han we, Snow white and Rose reed, that shynen cleere.

11 1390.  Gower, Conf., I. 306. That ther he was snow whyt tofore, Evere afterward colblak therfore He was transformed.

12 c. 1450.  Godstow Reg., 17. Þat we ben cladde in a snow-whyȝt stole.

13 1582.  Stanyhurst, Æneis, III. (Arb.), 87. Heere … fowre fayre steeds snow whit I marcked.

14 c. 1610.  Women Saints, 39. She thought she brought forth a snow-white doue.

15 a. 1700.  Evelyn, Diary, 14 Feb. 1645. With her statue over it in snow-white marble.

16 1763.  Phil. Trans., LIV. 97. It has a body like a gnat, snow-white.

17 1807.  Thomson, Chem. (ed. 3), II. 277. Camphoric acid thus obtained is in snow-white crystals.

18 1860.  Tyndall, Glac., I. iii. 30. Above all rose the snow-white cone of the Ortler.

19 1877.  Black, Green Past., ii. Two snow-white and waxen hyacinths.

20   Comb.  1753.  Chambers’ Cycl., Suppl., s.v. Linaria, The snow-white flowered creeping toad flax. Ibid., s.v. Plumeria, The snow-white-flowered plumeria, with … pointed leaves.

21   b.  Clad in robes of pure white. rare.

22 1847.  Emerson, Poems, Each & All. Her beauty’s best attire Was woven still by the snow-white choir.

23   2.  In the specific names of fishes, birds or moths (see quots.).

24 1804.  Shaw, Gen. Zool., V. I. 73. Snow-white Salmon. Ibid. (1809), VII. I. 149. Snow-White Falcon. Ibid., 240. Snow-white Owl spotted with black.

25 1832.  J. Rennie, Butterfl. & Moths, 224. The Snow White Spot (Incurvaria spuria). Ibid., 230. The Snow-white Plume (Pterophorus niveidactylus).

26   B.  sb. a. Pure white. b. A kind of wool of this color.

27 1890.  Science-Gossip, XXVI. 170. The flowers varied in colour from snow-white to green and white flushed with crimson purple.

28 1896.  Daily News, 23 Jan., 9/4. Cape and Natal wools meet with good competition, and medium to superior snow-whites … have advanced.

29   Hence Snow-whiteness.

30 1856.  Ruskin, Mod. Paint., IV. V. iii. § 24. 53. The authority for using snow-whiteness as a type of purity.

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