Recent Examples on the WebAn aggressive gobbler will usually stand his ground and strut with a snow-white head.—Will Brantley, Field & Stream, 14 Mar. 2023 Adonis wears snow-white satin to their climactic face-off, and Dame is in all black, a clarity of messaging which generally suffuses the rest of the movie; shades of gray do not apply.—Leah Greenblatt And Darren Franich, EW.com, 3 Mar. 2023 The film's soaring tunes painted idyllic images of Alpine hills flowering with snow-white edelweiss against a backdrop of the terrifying darkness of Nazism.—Kerry J. Byrne, Fox News, 2 Mar. 2023 The end result is a pig with a clean, delicate, slightly nutty meat and snow-white fat.—Elizabeth Karmel, Forbes, 20 Feb. 2023
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Word History
First Known Use
before the 12th century, in the meaning defined above
Time Traveler
The first known use of snow-white was
before the 12th century
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