white as snow
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white as snow (not comparable)
- (simile) Very white.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto VIII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 30:
- At last with creeping crooked pace forth came / An old old man, with beard as white as snow, / That on a staffe his feeble steps did frame,
- 1830, Sarah Josepha Hale, Mary Had a Little Lamb:
- Mary had a little lamb whose fleece was white as snow.
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very white
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