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- adjective poetic
Capped withwhiteness (such as snow or sea foam).
Etymologies
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Examples
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Cotton mills that tried to hire blacks, for example, were routinely “whitecapped” into submission.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Bruce Bartlett’s Attack on Libertarianism 2010
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Blasting toward them out of the whitecapped seas was a boat.
Gideon’s war Howard Gordon 2011
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Blasting toward them out of the whitecapped seas was a boat.
Gideon’s war Howard Gordon 2011
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Cotton mills that tried to hire blacks, for example, were routinely “whitecapped” into submission.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Bruce Bartlett’s Attack on Libertarianism 2010
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Blasting toward them out of the whitecapped seas was a boat.
Gideon’s war Howard Gordon 2011
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Blasting toward them out of the whitecapped seas was a boat.
Gideon’s war Howard Gordon 2011
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Whether opaque from its burden of silt, whitecapped from the wind, in full flood or low water, the Colorado kept no secrets from him: “I could look out on that river and tell you within two inches the depth of the water.”
Colossus Michael Hiltzik 2010
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Cotton mills that tried to hire blacks, for example, were routinely “whitecapped” into submission.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Bruce Bartlett’s Attack on Libertarianism 2010
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Cotton mills that tried to hire blacks, for example, were routinely “whitecapped” into submission.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Bruce Bartlett’s Attack on Libertarianism 2010
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Whether opaque from its burden of silt, whitecapped from the wind, in full flood or low water, the Colorado kept no secrets from him: “I could look out on that river and tell you within two inches the depth of the water.”
Colossus Michael Hiltzik 2010
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