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Snow that has been moved by wind and collected into snowdrifts. Snow that has just fallen from the sky is considered to be pure and untouched, as in the phrase 'pure as driven snow'; meaning totally pure, untouched, morally chaste.

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What does the term pure as the driven snow mean?

The phrase pure as the driven snow means extremely or totally pure. Shakespeare used snow as a symbol for purity. When snow first falls, driven snow, there is nothing wrong with it such as dirt, animal tracks, or leaves, which makes it pure.


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Where did the idiom as white as the driven snow come from?

the correct phrase is pure as the driven snowIt means entirely pure.OriginThe complete phrase 'as pure as the driven snow' doesn't appear in that form in any of Shakespeare's writing, but it almost does and he used snow as a symbol for purity and whiteness in several plays. In The Winter's Tale, 1611:Autolycus: Lawn as white as driven snow.In Macbeth, 1605:Malcolm: Black Macbeth will seem as pure as snow.


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