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  • adjective Attributive form of skimmed milk, noun.

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Examples

  • In different forms they may vary in shape from slender to chunky, and in colour from white through skimmed-milk to a soft lavender-blue.

    Kopper King And Friends « Fairegarden 2009

  • Nestle, whose export of skimmed-milk powder to developing countries has long been controversial, received more than £7m.

    All that glitters is not gold Richard 2006

  • Leave out the condiments, use skimmed-milk instead of whole, wheat-grain instead of all-purpose flour, eliminate all white foodscakes, cookies, muffins, cut back on sugar and sodas, and stuff yourself with vegetables,fruits and lean meat.

    Counting Calories for Weight Loss 2008

  • Leave out the condiments, use skimmed-milk instead of whole, wheat-grain instead of all-purpose flour, eliminate all white foodscakes, cookies, muffins, cut back on sugar and sodas, and stuff yourself with vegetables,fruits and lean meat.

    Archive 2008-05-01 2008

  • They have commonly pottage for dinner, composed of cale or cole, leeks, barley or big, and butter; and this is reinforced with bread and cheese, made of skimmed-milk — At night they sup on sowens or flummery of oat-meal — In a scarcity of oats, they use the meal of barley and pease, which is both nourishing and palatable.

    The Expedition of Humphry Clinker 2004

  • It's not in the OED, surprisingly, but Webster's Third International has it: 'a light bluish gray to light gray that is redder and darker than skimmed-milk white and very slightly redder than glaucous gray.'

    languagehat.com: ASHES TO ASHES. 2004

  • She sipped tea at dawn, then ate a big breakfast that usually contained meat, snacked in midmorning on homemade yogurt or skimmed-milk health drink, lunched at noon on a soufflé and salad or something similarly light, and dined again, sparely, in the evening on little more than fruit and cheeses.

    Portrait of An Artist Laurie Lisle 1986

  • To-day I have another letter from you, as a sort of marmalade to one's bad bread and tea-urn skimmed-milk tea.

    Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle 1883

  • She loved fun still, in her way, but not as Phillis and Dulce, who thought it the cream of life and would not be content with the sort of skimmed-milk existence of other young ladies.

    Not Like Other Girls Rosa Nouchette Carey 1874

  • "In one month, butter prices have risen by 4 percent in France, 8 percent in Germany and even more in the UK" and prices for cheese, skimmed-milk powder and milk have also risen, she told the European Parliament on Thursday.

    Original Signal - Transmitting Buzz 2009

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