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单词 swan-white
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swan-whiteadj.

Etymology: Compare Middle Low German swanewit, German schwanenweiss, Old Norse svanhvítr (as a proper name).Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈswan-white.
poetic.
As white as a swan; snow-white.
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the world > matter > colour > named colours > white or whiteness > [adjective] > pure white > as other typical things
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1393 W. Langland Piers Plowman C. xxi. 215 Yf alle þe worlde were whit oþer swan-whit alle þynges.
?1507 W. Dunbar Tua Mariit Wemen (Rouen) in Poems (1998) I. 47 Swanquhit of hewis.
a1618 J. Sylvester Mem. Mortalitie ii. xlix To note An old Sir Tame-ass..swan-white to dote On Venus' Dovelings.
a1796 R. Burns Poems & Songs (1968) I. 421 Her yellow hair..Comes trinkling down her swan white neck.
1823 in J. Baillie Coll. of Poems 255 Thy swan-white sails exulting spread.
a1900 T. W. Rolleston Dead at Clonmacnois v Many a blue eye of Clan Colman the turf covers, Many a swan-white breast.
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