| 单词 | bone-white |
| 释义 | > as lemmasbone-white bone-white n. and adj. (a) n. a shade of white similar to the colour of bone, typically being an off-white with a grey or yellow tinge; (also occasionally) a thing of this colour; (b) adj. of the white colour of bone; off-white in colour.In quot. 1850: a horse of an off-white colour. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > colour > named colours > white or whiteness > [adjective] > pure white > as ivory or bone white as whale's bonec1275 ivorya1586 ivory-white1595 eburnean1656 eburnine1822 bone-coloured1837 bone-white1850 ivorine1888 ivoried1890 1850 ‘H. Hieover’ Pract. Horsemanship p. xiii She [sc. a mare] is the ‘milk-white’. Now there is a breed of ‘bone-whites’, of a bluish tinge, with blackish muzzles. 1873 Milwaukee (Wisconsin) Daily Sentinel 15 Apr. 2/3 Bone-white teeth. 1954 J. R. R. Tolkien Two Towers iv. iii. 253 Arms and legs almost bone-white and bone-thin. 1985 R. LeMaster Great Gallery of Ducks xvii. 191 The bone colour is more a bone white than a true white. 2007 Sunday Times Trav. May 153/2 The island is circled by bone-white sand. < as lemmas |
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