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单词 whitish-blue
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whitish-blue
C1. Modifying adjectives and nouns of colour, as whitish-blue, whitish-green, whitish-grey, etc.
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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.
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