milk-white
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milk-white
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Inherited from Middle English milke white, mylk-whyte, mylkquyte, mylk-whit, milc-whit, from Old English meolchwīt (“milk-white”), equivalent to milk + white. Compare Dutch melkwit (“milk-white”), German milchweiß (“milk-white”), Swedish mjölkvit (“milk-white”).
adjective more milk-white · most milk-white · milkwhite
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Having a slightly bluish white color, that of milk.
He made love in a coach and six, and married in a coach and twelve, and all his horses were milk-white horses with one red spot on the back which he caused to be hidden by the harness. For, the spot would come there, though every horse was milk-white when Captain Murderer bought him. And the spot wa
Similar: milky-white
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adj having a slightly bluish white color, that of milk
| 日本語 | 乳白色の nyūhakushoku no |
|---|---|
| Français | laiteux |
| Deutsch | milchweiß, schneeweiß |
| Русский | молочно-бе́лый moločno-bélyj |
| العربية | لَبَنِيّ labaniyy, شِيرْبَام šīrbām |
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