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English
Etymology
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
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
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