| 单词 | milky-white |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmilky-white milky-white adj. (and n.) (a) = milk-white adj.; also as n.; (b) resembling milk in water, cloudy, opaque. 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 1581 J. Maplet Diall Destiny sig. Kijv, (table) Galaxia or the milky white way of the Ayer in the cleare nights. 1651 W. Davenant Gondibert ii. vi. xlv. 189 From Paros Isle, was brought the milkie white [marble]; From Sparta, came the Green, wch cheers the view. 1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics iii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 114 With Fleeces milky white . View more context for this quotation 1725 A. Pope tr. Homer Odyssey III. x. 365 Black was the root, but milky white the flow'r. 1800 tr. E. J. B. Bouillon-Lagrange Man. Course Chem. II. 67 The result is a milky white opake glass, called White Enamel. 1869 G. Lawson Dis. Eye (1874) 157 A piece of tough milky white looking lens capsule. 1915 W. Cather Song of Lark i. i. 10 He thought to himself what a beautiful thing a little girl's body was... It was so neatly and delicately fashioned, so soft, and so milky white. 1981 D. Potter Pennies from Heaven xviii. 110 And his eyes..went milky white. 2012 F. Vignola et al. Solar & Infrared Radiation Measurem. vi. 161 Although the sun's disk appears red for these hazy conditions, skylight appears not blue but milky white, especially near the horizon. < as lemmas |
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