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Definition of Snowiness
1. [n -ES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Snowiness
Literary usage of Snowiness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Punch by Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman (1879)
"... Blanch to the snowiness of bleached lawn. The trim and taper finger-tips that
rest, Soft as new-fallen snow-flakes, ..."
2. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1872)
"For the dignity of my demeanour, and the nobility of my uniform, also the snowiness
of my hair, combined to defeat the unerring quickness of his rapid and ..."
3. All the Year Round: A Weekly Journal by Charles Dickens (1859)
"... to bed (O divine snowiness of country beds!), desiring to be called at half-past
six for bathing; the consequence of which, of course, was, ..."
4. Language and the Study of Language: Twelve Lectures on the Principles of by William Dwight Whitney (1889)
"... if we had left the zone of snow behind us—snowy would come to mean in our use
what white does now, and snowiness would signify ' whiteness. ..."
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