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Definition of Milk-white
1. Adjective. Of a white the color of fresh milk.
Definition of Milk-white
1. Adjective. having a slightly white-blue color, that of milk ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Milk-white
Literary usage of Milk-white
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Iliad of Homer by Homer (1796)
"The milk-white canvas bellying as they blow, The parted ocean foams and roars
below: Above the bounding billows ..."
2. The Natural History of Selborne: With Observations on Various Parts of by Gilbert White (1853)
"... m laying invariably but two eggs at a time, which are milk-white, long, and
peaked at the small end; whereas the other species lay at each brood from ..."
3. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1890)
"A little western flower, Before milk-white, now purple with love's wound, And
maidens call it love-in-idleness. Shok., MND, li. 1. ..."
4. British Poets of the Nineteenth Century by Curtis Hidden Page (1910)
"... o'er a forehead full As the milk-white space 'twixt horn and horn (}nly calm
as a babe new-born : /•'or he was gut to a sleepy mood, So safe from all ..."
5. A Complete Word and Phrase Concordance to the Poems and Songs of Robert by J. B. Reid (1889)
"Sweet as the dewy, milk-white thorn, Add. to Edinburgh. 4. ... Within yon milk-white
hawthorn bush, О Logan ! sweetly \ Beneath the milk-white thorn that ..."
6. The Canadas in 1841 by Richard Henry Bonnycastle (1841)
"... Extraordinary Phenomenon—Nearing Land—Pilot Boats — Estuary of the St.
Lawrence—A Canadian Pilot—Singular Sunset—milk-white Porpoises— Preserved Meats ..."
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