A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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Snawi(s)ch, adj. [ME and e.m.E. snowisse (Chaucer), -ych (Lydgate), snawishe (1566).] Snowy, snow-white. —
This angellis weid wes snawich [pr. snawith] in cullour; Dunb. (STS) xxxvii 9.
Ȝour snawisch cheiks lyke quhytest allabast; Philotus 482.
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