white as snow

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1. (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.