Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • White as milk.

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  • adjective having a slightly white-blue color, that of milk

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective of a white the color of fresh milk

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Examples

  • It was a gloriously sunny day with only pockets of milk-white clouds bursting here and there over the azure sky.

    Olivia V.C.Andrews 2011

  • Rushing streams overflow their banks in summer, watering the meadows where a young Lev Tolstoy wandered, botanical primer in hand, picking out the . . . red, white, and pink scented tufty clover; milk-white ox-eye daisies with their bright yellow centers and pleasant spicy smell; yellow honey-scented rape blossoms; tall campanulas with white and lilac bells, tulip-shaped; creeping vetch . . .

    The Return Daniel Treisman 2011

  • Moonlight glinted from the black wing of hair falling across his pale face, glinted from his rings, shimmered against his milk-white skin—a part of him.

    Etched in Bone Adrian Phoenix 2011

  • Moonlight glinted from the black wing of hair falling across his pale face, glinted from his rings, shimmered against his milk-white skin—a part of him.

    Etched in Bone Adrian Phoenix 2011

  • Moonlight glinted from the black wing of hair falling across his pale face, glinted from his rings, shimmered against his milk-white skin—a part of him.

    Etched in Bone Adrian Phoenix 2011

  • It was a gloriously sunny day with only pockets of milk-white clouds bursting here and there over the azure sky.

    Olivia V.C.Andrews 2011

  • But Li Wan saw only the fingers, milk-white and shapely, tapering daintily to the rosy, jewel-like nails.

    LI-WAN, THE FAIR 2010

  • Under my arms, sun-shielded, my skin was milk-white as my mother's.

    Chapter 15 2010

  • The waves were holding high carnival, performing the strangest antics, as with wild glee they danced along in fierce pursuit-now up, now down, here, there, and everywhere, until some great sea of liquid green with its milk-white crest of foam rose from the ocean's throbbing bosom and drove the others from view.

    Story of a Typhoon off the Coast of Japan 2010

  • Moonlight glinted from the black wing of hair falling across his pale face, glinted from his rings, shimmered against his milk-white skin—a part of him.

    Etched in Bone Adrian Phoenix 2011

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