Snowy
['snəʊɪ] or ['snoɪ]
Definition
(a.) White like snow.
(a.) Abounding with snow; covered with snow.
(a.) Fig.: Pure; unblemished; unstained; spotless.
Inputed by Abner
Examples
- She had always a new bonnet on, and flowers bloomed perpetually in it, or else magnificent curling ostrich feathers, soft and snowy as camellias. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- The pistol roared in the snowy woods. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- A lovely evening, but late for you to be out alone, he said, as he crushed the snowy heads of the closed flowers with his foot. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- And today was the white, snowy iridescent threshold of all possibility. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- And when the snowy afternoon came, Jo resolved to try what could be done. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- How sharply its pinnacled angles and its wilderness of spires were cut against the sky, and how richly their shadows fell upon its snowy roof! Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- In her snowy-frilled cap she reminded one of that delightful Frenchwoman whom we have all seen marketing, basket on arm. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- The whiteness of the teeth is not that of ivory, but of the snowiest and most gleaming of china. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
Inputed by Annie