white as the driven snow

A form of white as driven snow — extremely white; totally white (of a color).

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Meanings

adjectivewhite as the driven snow (not comparable)
  1. alternativenot comparableAlternative 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
    1 more example

    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
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