silver-whiteadj.n.
A. adj.
Of a silvery whiteness.
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the world > matter > colour > named colours > white or whiteness > [adjective] > silvery
whiteOE
silverc1405
silverish1530
argentine1578
argenta1593
silver-coloured1594
silver-white1598
silver-like1611
silvery1611
argenteous1881
silvern1885
1598 W. Shakespeare Love's Labour's Lost v. ii. 880 Ladi-smockes all siluer white . View more context for this quotation
1715 N. Rowe Lady Jane Gray iv. i Say thou, whose Head is grown thus Silver White.
1810 G. Crabbe Borough xiii. 180 His Hair all silver-white, Shaking and shining.
1864 W. W. Skeat tr. J. L. Uhland Songs & Ballads 2 Buoyed on clouds all silver-white.
B. n.
1. local. The white trout or finnoc.
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the world > animals > fish > class Osteichthyes or Teleostomi > order Salmoniformes (salmon or trout) > family Salmonidae (salmon) > [noun] > genus Salmo > trout (unspecified and miscellaneous) > white trout
finnoc1771
finner1803
silver-white?1834
white trout1861
?1834 Hist. Berwickshire Naturalists' Club 1 No. 2. 51 This fish I consider to be..the Silver White of the Tweed tacksmen.
1880–4 F. Day Fishes Great Brit. & Ireland II. 85 White-salmon..is locally known as..whiting, phinock, moudie-trout, silverwhite.
2. A pure white lead used by artists; Chinese white.
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the world > matter > colour > named colours > white or whiteness > whitener > [noun] > white pigment or paint
white leadlOE
whitea1300
blank plumbc1325
cerusec1405
white earth1448
Spanish white1546
litharge1551
mineral white1651
flake-white1660
Vienna white1816
permanent white1822
zinc white1847
constant white1854
Krems1854
Cremnitz1874
silver-white1875
lithoponea1884
baryta white1885
Charlton white1885
titanium white1920
1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. III. 2772/1 Kremnitz white, krems white, and silver white are synonyms of white-lead.
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