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white as the driven snow en · ADJ

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  1. (alt-of, alternative, not-comparable) Alternative form of white as driven snow.
    • And no sooner had she taken the shirt and dipped it in the water, than it was as white as the driven snow, if not whiter. 1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 241:
    • They are said to celebrate there every returning spring a great nocturnal festival. On the sod at its brink is spread a table-cloth white as the driven snow, covered with the most delicious viands. 1850, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, London: H.G. Bohn, page 432: