Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In a snowy manner; with or as snow.

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  • adverb In a snowy way.

Etymologies

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snowy +‎ -ly

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Examples

  •     So when on ivory thrones they rested, snowily gleaming,

    Poems and Fragments 2006

  •     So when on ivory thrones they rested, snowily gleaming,

    Poems and Fragments 2006

  • Back to the flowery island of Sicily her mother brought her, and the peach trees and the almonds blossomed snowily as she passed.

    A Book of Myths Jeanie Lang

  • So when on ivory thrones they rested, snowily gleaming,

    The Poems and Fragments of Catullus Gaius Valerius Catullus

  • Out at Hillside the stones that demarcate the territory of an old-fashioned house are new and snowily whitewashed.

    Pipefuls Christopher Morley 1923

  • As the rising wind began to whirl snowily about their ears and necks, the party turned up their coat-collars and tucked in their fur robes.

    The Second Violin 1912

  • With the wind upon her quarter, she rode on an even keel, and the long iron hull, gleaming snowily in the sunshine, drove on, majestic, through a field of white-flecked green and azure.

    Vane of the Timberlands Harold Bindloss 1905

  • June seemed a little tardy here, but the elder, the rose, and the panicled cornel were almost ready, the button-bushes were showing ivory, while the arrow-wood, fully open, was glistening snowily everywhere, its tiny flower crowns falling and floating in patches down-stream, its over-sweet breath hanging heavy in the morning mist.

    Roof and Meadow Dallas Lore Sharp 1899

  • At the extreme end of the glittering vista of pale-green, transparent columns, a door suddenly opened, and a flock of doves came speeding forth, their white, spread wings colored softly in the clear rose-radiance, -- they circled round and round the dome three times, then fluttered in a palpitating arch over Lysia's head, and finally sped straight across the hall to the other end, where they streamed snowily through another aperture and disappeared.

    Ardath Marie Corelli 1889

  • His voice died in a hard sob of imploring agony, -- smitten to the very soul by a remorse greater than he could bear, his strength failed him, and he fell senseless, face forward among the flowers of the Prophet's field; .. flowers that, circling snowily around his dark and prostrate form, looked like fairy garlands bordering

    Ardath Marie Corelli 1889

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