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English
Adjective
whyte
- (obsolete, revived on the internet) Alternative spelling of white
Anagrams
Middle English
Etymology 1
Noun
whyte
- Alternative form of whete
Etymology 2
Adjective
whyte
- Alternative form of whit
1485, Sir Thomas Malory, chapter IX, in Le Morte Darthur, book XIII:NOw rydeth Galahalt yet withouten shelde / and so rode four dayes without ony aduenture / And at the fourth day after euensonge / he came to a whyte Abbay / and there was he receyued with grete reuerence / and ledde vnto a chambre / and there was he vnarmed / And thenne was he ware of knyghtes of the table round- (please add an English translation of this quotation)