| 单词 | whitish-blue |
| 释义 | > as lemmaswhitish-blue C1. Modifying adjectives and nouns of colour, as whitish-blue, whitish-green, whitish-grey, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > colour > quality of colour > [adjective] > relating to tone > light or pale whiteeOE palec1350 lighta1398 whitey1556 bleak1566 wan1567 whitish1577 pasty1607 mirage1927 1577 W. Harrison Hist. Descr. Islande Brit. iii. xiv. f. 131v/1, in R. Holinshed Chron. I The flower [of the Saffron Crocus] beginneth to appeare of a whitish blewe colour. 1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball 688 A long fruite,..of a whitish gray colour, fat & oylie, in taste sharpe & bitter. 1598 J. Florio Worlde of Words 230/1 Molochino, a kinde of colour like a whitish purple. 1653 R. Saunders Physiognomie ii. 166 A whitish red colour. 1667 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 2 430 Turquois..of the New [Rock] are of an ill whitish Blew. 1712 R. Steele Spectator No. 436. ⁋1 A whitish brown Paper. 1731 G. Medley tr. P. Kolb Present State Cape Good-Hope II. 258 The Blossoms are of a Whitish Red, like those of the Apple-Tree. 1869 H. B. Stowe Oldtown Folks iii. 22 Watery, whitish-blue eyes. 1883 D. C. Murray Hearts II. xvi. 100 His swarthy face had taken an ugly tint of whitish-green. 1951 J. C. Fennessy Sonnet in Bottle ii. i. 40 Little whitish-silver flying fish. 2007 R. Thomson Death of Murderer (2008) 193 The skin under his eyes had turned to a mottled whitish-grey. < as lemmas |
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