Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Snow-white \Snow"-white`\, a.
White as snow; very white. ``Snow-white and rose-red''
--Chaucer.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Old English snawhwit, from snow (n.) + white (adj.). Similar formation in Dutch sneeuwwit, Middle Low German snewhit, German schneeweiss, Old Norse snæhvitr, Swedish snöhvit, Danish snehvid. The fairy tale is so-called from 1885, translating German Schneewittchen in Grimm; the German name used in English by 1858.
Wiktionary
a. As white as snow; exceptionally white. n. (context offensive slang English) A Caucasian person, especially a woman
WordNet
adj. the white color of snow [syn: snowy]
Usage examples of "snow-white".
Why of so pure a mauve and bespangled with so many millions of snow-white crystals?
The colour screen showed a thirty-storied building in the shape of a parallelepiped, inlaid with orange ceramics and a fifty-metre bas-relief in snow-white marble of the first space rocket we had launched to the moon.
Sir Stephen, who had been struck by a petronel bullet, and wore a crimsoned kerchief bound round his snow-white head, saw the wisdom of the advice, and moved his townsmen as directed.
The most that could be said was, that whereas on Earth the snow is of that white which we consider absolute, and call, as such, snow-white, but which really has in it a very slight preponderance of blue, upon Mars the polar caps are rather cream-white, or of that white, so common in our flowers, which has in it an equally slight tinge of yellow.
He gave a pretty demonstration of a bird chasing insects, darting, banking, soaring, whirling and plunging with the sun ashine upon the beauty of his snow-white plumage.
For Joscelin and Imriel, that meant breeches and chamma of snow-white linen, short cloaks thrown over the top.
Tifari Amu and Bizan took the lead, wearing embroidered capes over snow-white chammas and breeches, their horses prancing as if at parade.
A man with a helmet crested entirely with snow-white feathers shoved her forward into the hands of his foremost soldiers, trying to move her toward a far archway that gave into a larger passage: their escape route.
The snow-white wings were so much grander than her old ones, but they did not fold as neatly because of that which was an irritation.
Make the man with the snow-white face your first lover, the voice called to her one masturbatory winter-solstice night, the eve of her thirteenth birthday.
Caught by surprise, with her feet still awkwardly perched on top of the desk, she choked on her pizza as a trio of intruders barged into the office, led by a bearded young man wearing a snow-white turban and a red Nehru jacket.
Its palms appeared far off, and in the midst of them a snow-white tower.
Earth, the same vaulted ceiling and elaborate pillars, the intimidating air of reverence, though here the polyp walls were a clean snow-white, and instead of an altar there was a fountain bubbling out of an antique marble Venus.
A man of imposing stature and a full head of snow-white hair which billowed in waves over his high-domed skull, Archbishop Peter Rippon looked out upon the world through disconcertingly direct blue eyes.
The sun was well up when the nose of the Dolphin nestled against the snow-white bosom of Sandpeep Island.