pearl white

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English

Noun

pearl white (uncountable)

  1. Basic bismuth nitrate, or bismuth subchloride; used chiefly as a cosmetic.
  2. A variety of white lead blued with indigo or Berlin blue.
  3. A material made from fish scales, used in making artificial pearls.
  4. Any of various pierid butterflies of the genus Elodina.

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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “pearl white”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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