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adjective

Snowy adj.

White like snow. "So shows a snowy dove trooping with crows."

Abounding with snow; covered with snow. "The snowy top of cold Olympus."

Fig.: Pure; unblemished; unstained; spotless. "There did he lose his snowy innocence."

Snowy heron (Zool.), a white heron, or egret (Ardea candidissima), found in the Southern United States, and southward to Chile; called also plume bird.

Snowy lemming (Zool.), the collared lemming (Cuniculus torquatus), which turns white in winter.

Snowy owl (Zool.), a large arctic owl (Nyctea Scandiaca, or Nyctea nivea) common all over the northern parts of the United States and Europe in winter time. Its plumage is sometimes nearly pure white, but it is usually more or less marked with blackish spots. Called also white owl.

Snowy plover (Zool.), a small plover (Aegialitis nivosa) of the western parts of the United States and Mexico. It is light gray above, with the under parts and portions of the head white.

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"Snowy" Quotes from Famous Books

... pardoned. This being done, we took boat and home; and there a good supper was ready for us, which should have been our dinner. The Captains, desirous to be at London, went away presently for Gravesend, to get thither by this night's tide; and so we to supper, it having been a great snowy and mighty cold, foul day; and ...

— Diary of Samuel Pepys, Complete • Samuel Pepys

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... snowy cottages, peeping through a wealth of embowering vines, steal on our star-lighted vision as we roam along the grassy streets, and we scent the breath of gardens odorous with the sweets of dew-watered flowers. Above and around we hear the musical ...

— Eventide - A Series of Tales and Poems • Effie Afton

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... soon returned to claim the victim he had snatched from him, for Sirona's head hung down upon her breast, her face was sunk towards her lap, and at the back of her head, where her abundant hair parted into two flowing tresses, Paulus observed on the snowy neck of the insensible woman a red spot which the ...

— Uarda • Georg Ebers

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... clad in gala colors. Over its inaccessible peaks the opalescent fog settles like a snowy veil on the forehead of ...

— The Underdogs • Mariano Azuela

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... most parts of Switzerland, the mountains of Dauphiny are furrowed by deep valleys, each with its rapid stream or torrent at bottom, in some places overhung by precipitous rocks, in others hemmed in by green hills, over which are seen the distant snowy peaks and glaciers of the loftier mountain ranges. Of these, Mont Pelvoux—whose double pyramid can be seen from Lyons on a clear day, a hundred miles off—and the Aiguille du Midi, are among the larger masses, rising to a height little short of ...

— The Huguenots in France • Samuel Smiles

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