| 单词 | as white as milk |
| 释义 | > as lemmasas white as milk a. as white as milk. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > colour > named colours > white or whiteness > [adjective] > pure white > as milk milk-whiteOE as white as milkOE milkisha1398 milkya1398 milkc1450 milky-white1581 milkena1586 lacteal1633 lacteous1646 lactaceous1656 lactean1659 lactescent1758 milchy1890 OE tr. Wonders of East (Tiber.) §21. 196 Hi beoð an lichoman swa hwite swa meolc. c1300 Miracle of Monk in Publ. Mod. Lang. Assoc. Amer. (1923) 38 320 (MED) A lilie fair..þe floures so whit so eni mulc. a1425 (?a1400) G. Chaucer Romaunt Rose (Hunterian) 1196 Thorough hir smokke wrought with silk, The flesh was seen as white as mylk. a1500 (c1350) Octovian (Cambr.) (1986) l. 718 The stede was whyte as any mylke. 1573 New Custome ii. ii. sig. Cv Braue coopes in the churche, surplices as white as milke. 1600 W. Shakespeare Merchant of Venice iii. ii. 86 How many cowards..who inward searcht, haue lyuers white as milke. View more context for this quotation a1697 J. Aubrey Brief Lives (1898) I. 212 A long beard as white as milke. 1726 J. Swift Gulliver II. iv. iv. 53 The younger and the Females were much more soft and tender, and the Skins of the latter generally as white as Milk. 1776 G. Colman Spleen ii. 26 My tongue is as white as milk, and loaded as thick as a curd! 1802 F. W. Blagdon tr. P. S. Pallas Trav. Southern Provinces Russ. Empire I. 353 The tartarised spirit of sal ammoniac rendered the water white as milk. 1885 W. B. Forfar Poems 20 We saw the queer Chineese [sic] Their fa-aces are so white as milk, With little squinney eyes. 1925 V. Lindsay Coll. Poems (rev. ed.) 164 Our sweethearts dance, with wands as white as milk, With veils of gold and robes of silver silk. 1990 A. S. Byatt Possession xix. 333 He heard the shower-streams break and rattle on Maud's invisible body, which he imagined to himself gently and vaguely, without urgency or precision, white as milk. < as lemmas |
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