milk-white

See also: milkwhite

English

Alternative forms

milkwhite

Adjective

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

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.

Translations

having a slightly bluish white color, that of milk

Bulgarian: млечнобял (mléchnobyál)
German: milchweiß, milchweiss (Switzerland and Liechtenstein), schneeweiß (de), schneeweiss (de) (Switzerland and Liechtenstein)
Ido: laktoblanka (io)

Latin: lacteus
Scottish Gaelic: bàn-gheal

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