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  • adjective Alternative form of milk-white.

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Examples

  • Xavier ascending to heaven, each in a magnificent chariot drawn by four milkwhite horses; and above, the Eternal Father, adorned with

    A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

  • Maria Nikolaevna relapsed into dreamy silence, and began biting the handle of her fan with her big, but even, milkwhite teeth.

    The Torrents of Spring 2006

  • She blinked up out of her avid shameclosing eyes, mewing plaintively and long, showing him her milkwhite teeth.

    Ulysses 2003

  • The milkwhite dolphin tossed his mane and, rising in the golden poop the helmsman spread the bellying sail upon the wind and stood off forward with all sail set, the spinnaker to larboard.

    Ulysses 2003

  • Then wil I staine my milkwhite vaile with weeping, And as thine handmaide dye in sorrowes keeping.

    The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

  • The head was jet-black, the neck milkwhite, the wings fawn-colour, having lower feathers of purple.

    Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia 2003

  • Her milkwhite breasts swayed with her advance, and he let his eyes drop to the garnet-yellow hair between her thighs.

    In Other Worlds Attanasio, A. A. 1984

  • It bewildered Maud to see that not only overhead arched a star-bespangled sky, but likewise underneath her feet the same solemn starry splendour was revealed, as if the slight fairy people walked, between two heavens, upon the milkwhite vapour which rolled on under them like clouds.

    Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 344, June, 1844 Various

  • Josie, also wore a sailor dress of dark blue with loose white collar and vest; a scarlet wrap covered her short curly hair; her skin was milkwhite and her features small and irregular.

    The Workingman's Paradise An Australian Labour Novel John Maurice Miller

  • He is seated on a milkwhite horse with long flowing crimson tail, richly caparisoned, with golden headstall.

    Ulysses James Joyce 1911

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