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Definition of Snow-white
1. Adjective. Of the white color of snow.
Definition of Snow-white
1. Adjective. As white as snow; exceptionally white. ¹
2. Adjective. (context: offensive slang) A white person, especially a woman ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Snow-white
Literary usage of Snow-white
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Household Stories, from the Collection of the Bros: Grimm by Jacob Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm (1883)
"... and hair as black as ebony, and she was named snow-white. And when she was
born the queen died. After a year had gone by the king took another wife, ..."
2. The Harvard Classics by Charles William Eliot (1909)
"snow-white AND ROSE-RED THERE was once a poor widow who lived in a lonely cottage.
In front of the cottage was a garden wherein stood two rose- trees, ..."
3. Grimm's Fairy Tales by Jacob Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm, Edna Henry Lee Turpin (1903)
"snow-white AND ROSE-KED Once upon a time there lived a poor woman in a lonely
cottage. In the cottage garden grew two rose bushes one of which bore white ..."
4. Children's Literature: A Textbook of Sources for Teachers and Teacher by Charles Madison Curry (1921)
"179 Margaret Hunt's translation of Grimm's "Snow-White and Rose-Red" follows.
It has long been recognized as one of the most beautiful and appealing of folk ..."
5. Children's Literature: A Textbook of Sources for Teachers and Teacher by Charles Madison Curry (1921)
"179 Margaret Hunt's translation of Grimm's "Snow-White and Rose-Red" follows.
It has long been recognized as one of the most beautiful and appealing of folk ..."
6. The Forerunner, His Parables and Poems by Kahlil Gibran (1920)
"SAID a sheet of snow-white paper, "Pure was I created, and pure will I remain
for ever. ... And the snow-white sheet of paper did remain pure and chaste for ..."
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