Definitions
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- adjective of a white tinged with yellow
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Examples
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She ate her eggs with her fingers, licking at the yellow-white morsels with quick flicks of her pink tongue.
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Cross from one side of the rotunda to the other, while keeping your eyes focused on your hands or clothes, and you see the light on them pass from blue to a sunny yellow-white.
Exhibit review of Spencer Finch's 'My Business, With the Cloud' at the Corcoran 2010
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There was a fresh brown gouge in the horsehide, and a corresponding yellow-white gouge, she saw, in the tree trunk.
DIAMOND RUBY Joseph Wallace 2010
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There was a fresh brown gouge in the horsehide, and a corresponding yellow-white gouge, she saw, in the tree trunk.
DIAMOND RUBY Joseph Wallace 2010
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A brilliant yellow-white star, and the eighth brightest star in the sky.
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He drew the door open, got down on floor, pulled the dog to him and dug his hands into the yellow-white fur.
Country House 2010
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But a little admixture, 1 percent if I recall, of ceria enables it to convert the flame's energy into the bright yellow-white light many of us have seen.
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The sun was high and yellow-white, and the entire sky seemed to radiate heat like the walls of an oven.
Here Comes Another Lesson Stephen O’Connor 2010
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His colour changed, suddenly yellow-white, and his hand, very quickly, felt icy cold.
Maggie Gee: When my parents died Maggie Gee 2010
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There was a fresh brown gouge in the horsehide, and a corresponding yellow-white gouge, she saw, in the tree trunk.
DIAMOND RUBY Joseph Wallace 2010
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