milk-white

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Etymology

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Inherited from Middle English milke white, mylk-whyte, mylkquyte, mylk-whit, milc-whit, from Old English meolchwīt (milk-white), equivalent to milk +‎ white. Compare Dutch melkwit (milk-white), German milchweiß (milk-white), Swedish mjölkvit (milk-white).

Adjective

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milk-white (comparative more milk-white, superlative most milk-white)

  1. Having a slightly bluish white color, that of milk.
    • 1860, Charles Dickens, Captain Murderer:
      He made love in a coach and six, and married in a coach and twelve, and all his horses were milk-white horses with one red spot on the back which he caused to be hidden by the harness. For, the spot would come there, though every horse was milk-white when Captain Murderer bought him. And the spot was young bride's blood.

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