milk-white

Speech parts

1. milk-white - Adjective

2. milk-white - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

of a white the color of fresh milk

Source: WordNet

Alternative names

milk white

Synonyms

milky snow-white white ivory alabaster chalky hoary opaque snowy clouded whitish creamy lacteal off-white pearly
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Antonyms

raven ebon ebony sable black obsidian
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Examples

The gentle Lady married to the Moor, And heavenly Una with her milk-white lamb. William Wordsworth

Beneath the milk-white thorn that scents the evening gale. Robert Burns

There he heard a Lady talking, To some milk-white Hens of Dorking,- 'Tis the lady Jingly Jones! On that little heap of stones Sits the Lady Jingly Jones! Edward Lear

Fictional history Elric is described in 1972's Elric of Melniboné: It is the colour of a bleached skull, his flesh; and the long hair which flows below his shoulders is milk-white. Source: Internet

Hellenistic folk etymology connected the name of the Galatians (Γαλάται, Galátai) to the supposedly "milk-white" skin (γάλα, gála "milk") of the Gauls. Source: Internet

The floors and walls are of milk-white marble veined with blue. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

milk-transmitting milk-transporting milk-warm milkable Milkah milkaholic