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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. adj. Resembling snow; snowy.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Snowy; partaking of the qualities of snow; resembling snow; pure and brilliant white, as the wings of certain moths.

Wiktionary

  1. adj. Snowy; resembling snow.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. Snowy; resembling snow; partaking of the qualities of snow.

Etymologies

  1. From Latin niveus, from nix ("snow"). (Wiktionary)
  2. From Latin niveus, from nix, niv-, snow. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

Examples

  • “Roofless walls of niveous stone and truncated alabaster columns, never completed and now wreathed by thick vines, covered the leveled top of the mountain.”

    Conan The Triumphant

  • “Strong, slender fingers tested the niveous marble carvings of the wall, and then she was climbing like a monkey.”

    Conan The Triumphant

  • “As there be tides in the affairs of men which taken at the flood lead on to fortune, so there be waves which straddled at the proper time will bear a Halliwell on their niveous crest to the dizzy heights of fame, quicker'n the nictitation of a thomas-cat.”

    The Complete Works of Brann the Iconoclast, Volume 10

  • “Yes, my dear daughter," said her venerable son-in-law, running his fingers through his niveous thatch, "he was the first of the time - wasting Van Winkles.”

    Her Weight in Gold

  • “(b) Observations of the niveous and glacial features met with on the sledging journeys from both Antarctic bases.”

    The Home of the Blizzard Being the Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914

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  • yarb Is it closer to white, or brown? Apr 20, 2011

  • duckbill Cinabar becomes red by the acid exhalation of sulphur, which otherways presents a pure and niveous white. - Brown. Apr 20, 2011

  • she Snowy, resembling snow; white and lustrous. Aug 9, 2008

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