Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- White as milk.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective having a slightly white-blue color, that of
milk
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective of a white the color of fresh milk
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Examples
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It was a gloriously sunny day with only pockets of milk-white clouds bursting here and there over the azure sky.
Olivia V.C.Andrews 2011
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Rushing streams overflow their banks in summer, watering the meadows where a young Lev Tolstoy wandered, botanical primer in hand, picking out the . . . red, white, and pink scented tufty clover; milk-white ox-eye daisies with their bright yellow centers and pleasant spicy smell; yellow honey-scented rape blossoms; tall campanulas with white and lilac bells, tulip-shaped; creeping vetch . . .
The Return Daniel Treisman 2011
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Moonlight glinted from the black wing of hair falling across his pale face, glinted from his rings, shimmered against his milk-white skin—a part of him.
Etched in Bone Adrian Phoenix 2011
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Moonlight glinted from the black wing of hair falling across his pale face, glinted from his rings, shimmered against his milk-white skin—a part of him.
Etched in Bone Adrian Phoenix 2011
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Moonlight glinted from the black wing of hair falling across his pale face, glinted from his rings, shimmered against his milk-white skin—a part of him.
Etched in Bone Adrian Phoenix 2011
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It was a gloriously sunny day with only pockets of milk-white clouds bursting here and there over the azure sky.
Olivia V.C.Andrews 2011
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But Li Wan saw only the fingers, milk-white and shapely, tapering daintily to the rosy, jewel-like nails.
LI-WAN, THE FAIR 2010
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Under my arms, sun-shielded, my skin was milk-white as my mother's.
Chapter 15 2010
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The waves were holding high carnival, performing the strangest antics, as with wild glee they danced along in fierce pursuit-now up, now down, here, there, and everywhere, until some great sea of liquid green with its milk-white crest of foam rose from the ocean's throbbing bosom and drove the others from view.
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Moonlight glinted from the black wing of hair falling across his pale face, glinted from his rings, shimmered against his milk-white skin—a part of him.
Etched in Bone Adrian Phoenix 2011
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