canescencen.
/kəˈnɛsəns/ rare.
Hoariness, dull whiteness.
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hoariness1580
canescence1855
1855 R. F. Burton Personal Narr. Pilgrimage to El-Medinah (1861) I. 306 All colour melts away with the canescence from above. The sky is of a dead milk-white.
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