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snow white

adjectiveB1Not compared — the two pools are counted one word at a time, so a phrase has no score

Snow white is a pure brilliant white. Snow white linen, a snow white beard, washed snow white.

Snow looks that white because it is full of air and scatters every wavelength equally. As a comparison it is very old and appears in English long before the fairy tale.

Definitions of snow white

  1. 1adjectivesnow whiteA pure brilliant white.B1

    “He came down in a snow white shirt and no tie.”

snow white is a colour.

Where it comes from

  1. Proto-Germanic

    *snaiwahwītaz

  2. Proto-West Germanic

    *snaiwhwīt

  3. Old English

    snāwhwīt

  4. Middle English

    snow whit

  5. English

    snow-white

  6. English, today

    snow white

snow-white comes 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”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

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