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Some well-known variations include: “White as driven snow” by William Shakespeare, “White as new-fallen snow” by William Wordsworth, “White as dead snow” by Algernon Charles Swinburne and “White as the snow on high hills” by Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Similes comparing the whiteness of complexions, hair and miscellaneous objects to snow can be found throughout literature as well as in our everyday language. (Teeth,) white as peeled almonds -Gerald Kersh.(The little space between earth and sky was filled by a broken veil of drifting flakes as) white as pear blossoms -Phyllis Bottome.

(The air blew white in my face,) white as my daughter’s communion dress, white as a bridal veil -Elizabeth Spencer.

The comparison is being used to describe the look of a woman in a nurse’s uniform. Coraghessan BoyleĪn extension of this opening line of Chesterton’s poem, The Mirror of Madmen, is “White as hoarfrost.”Īn extension by a contemporary short story writer, Barry Targan: “White as polished ivory.”

(Her neck and temples were) white as flour -T.

(Teeth) white as detergent -Margaret Atwood.

White as blanched almonds -Charles Cotton.

(Moon) white as a sand dollar -Diane Ackerman.

White as any bough that blooms in May -Geoffrey Chaucer.

(Body) white as an aspirin -Richard Ford.

Some variations to intensify the image: “White as new milk” by Dorothy Canfield Fisher and “Snow white as white milk from a white cow” by Eleanor Wylie.

(In marble halls as) white as milk -Anon old English riddle.

(Face) white as a bandage -Helen Hudson.

(He’s as) white as a chicken -Honore de Balzac.

(The desert is) white as a blind man’s eye -Sylvia Plath.

Although typically a response to maximum stimulation of the retina, the perception of white appears always to depend on contrast.

WHITE OUT MEANING SKIN

White and wan, like the head and skin of a dying man -Percy Bysshe Shelley White definition: The achromatic color of maximum lightness the color of objects that reflect nearly all light of all visible wavelengths the complement or antagonist of black, the other extreme of the neutral gray series.Other definition of white out is to create or leave white spaces in.

(A yacht) white and pretty as a birthday cake -George Garrett The first definition of white out in the dictionary is to lose or lack daylight visibility owing to snow or fog.White and clean as driftwood -George Garrett.White and bare as a winter moon -George Garrett.Pure white as china door knobs -Reynolds Price.(Face) more white than sin -Dame Edith Sitwell.

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