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[ milk-hwahyt, -wahyt ] / ˈmɪlkˈʰwaɪt, -ˈwaɪt / SEE SYNONYMS FOR milk-white ON THESAURUS.COM
adjectiveof a white or slightly blue-white color, as that of milk. Origin of milk-whitebefore 1000; Middle English, Old English Words nearby milk-whitemilkweed, milkweed beetle, milkweed bug, milkweed butterfly, milkweed family, milk-white, milkwood, milkwort, milky, milky disease, Milky Way Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for milk-whiteFor a second the lily was enveloped in a milk-white foam, which disappeared, leaving the fluid opalescent. Read ‘The King in Yellow,’ the ‘True Detective’ Reference That’s the Key to the Show|Robert W. Chambers|February 20, 2014|DAILY BEAST Ah, Janet had seized the bridle of the milk-white steed and pulled the little rider off into her strong young arms. Stories from the Ballads|Mary MacGregor With a smother of foam, the metal canister toppled from its cradle into the milk-white wake of the swiftly-moving M.-L. The Thick of the Fray at Zeebrugge|Percy F. Westerman He rode on this occasion a milk-white troop-horse of the 10th Hussars. Cornish Worthies, Volume 2 (of 2)|Walter H. Tregellas
But revenons a nos moutons: let us return to that sweet lamb Master Thomas, and the milk-white ewe Mrs. Cat. Catherine: A Story|William Makepeace Thackeray Certainly it was not the heaping of coils, milk-white and ghastly, that took shape before his staring eyes. Astounding Stories of Super-Science, June, 1930|Various
Words related to milk-whitepearly, opaque, frosted, opalescent, alabaster, clouded, lacteal, lacteous, lactescent, opaline, whitish |