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white cliffs, n. pl.
[f. white a. + cliff.]
1. Chalk cliffs; spec. those of Dover, regarded as a symbol of Great Britain.
1879[see cliff 1 b]. 1902Kipling Just So Stories 7 Take me to my natal-shore and the white-cliffs-of-Albion. 1940N. Burton (song) There'll be blue-birds over the white cliffs of Dover. 1940R. S. Lambert Ariel & All his Quality iii. 84 Full of a mystic vision of Empire..inspired by the sight of the white cliffs of Dover. 1978M. Kenyon Deep Pocket xiv. 181 You'll be deported, you'll never see the White Cliffs again.
2. (With capital initials.) The name of a town in New South Wales, used attrib. to designate opals mined there.
1911C. E. W. Bean ‘Dreadnought’ of Darling xxv. 222 The Wilcannia banks live on the White Cliffs opal. 1936H. P. Whitlock Story of Gems x. 127 The White Cliffs opals are not unlike those from Hungary, but they show broader flashes of colour. 1975R. Webster Gems in Jewellery xi. 57 The White Cliffs opal is cream in colour and found in seams in sandstone. |