Snow White

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Snow White.
Walt Disney's version of Snow White, from the 1937 Snow White film.

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Calque of German Schneewittchen (literally “white as snow”).

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Snow White (plural Snow Whites)

  1. A fairy tale, the best-known version of Schneewittchen collected by the Brothers Grimm, in which a beautiful young girl is targeted by a jealous queen and tended by dwarfs.
  2. The main character in that story.
    • 1994, Canadian Children’s Literature, page 29:
      The discovery of male Cinderellas and Snow Whites in modern Turkish folklore invites further meditations and investigations.
    • 2008, Carol J. Adams, Douglas Buchanan, Kelly Gesch, The Bedside, Bathtub & Armchair Companion to Jane Austen, Continuum, →ISBN, page 113:
      Though it is often up to the Prince Charming of each novel to sweep the Austenian Snow Whites and Cinderellas off their feet, it is often up to the Snow Whites and Cinderellas to teach their respective heroes a little sense—or, in the case of Colonel Brandon and his all-but-impassioned Shakespeare reading, a little sensibility.
    • 2021, Gloria J. Romero, Just Not That Likable: The Price All Women Pay for Gender Bias, Post Hill Press, →ISBN:
      There is no shortage of little girls dressed as Sleeping Beauties, Snow Whites, Cinderellas, or even any of the princess “rebels” such as Ariel (who gave up her voice for a man) or Belle (who endured captivity as a pathway to love).
  3. A fictional character in the fairy tale Snow-White and Rose-Red, from Schneeweißchen und Rosenrot collected by the Brothers Grimm.

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