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Adjective
pale as milk (not comparable)
- (simile) Very pale.
c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, A Midsommer Nights Dreame. (First Quarto), London: for Thomas Fisher, , published 1600, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i]:O ſiſters three, come, come, to mee, / With hands as pale as milke, / Lay them in gore, ſince you haue ſhore / With ſheeres, his threede of ſilke.
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