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单词 milk-white
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Definition of milk-white in English:

milk-white

adjective ˈmɪlkwʌɪtˈmɪlkˌ(h)waɪt
  • Of the opaque white colour of milk.

    her milk-white skin
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Then his milk-white face turned ashen, and suddenly his pale blue eyes opened widely.
    • His milk-white hair fluttered around his face, and his pale blue eyes flashed beneath his enormous horn-rimmed glasses.
    • But then the screen showed him for a second, and they could plainly see it was a little boy, no older than eight, with milk-white skin and glassy, distant eyes.
    • His skin still glistened milk-white and gaunt as ever.
    • He saw people riding milk-white horses with tails dyed scarlet.
    • I awoke Saturday morning to a pallid, milk-white sky that was seemingly unable to decide whether to rain or snow.
    • The milk-white duck-bone soup was slightly acrid.
    • His skin was milk-white, with cheeks currently tinted in a light blush of pink.
    • The boy had enticing, green-blue eyes with little flecks of gold, milk-white skin with a slight tint of pink to the cheeks, and little freckles towards the tip of his nose.
    • Where this milk fell to earth, a milk-white lily spontaneously grew.
    • His low brow was usually furrowed, his shoulders round, his face milk-white and pinched.
    • Their color varies from milk-white in the larger and more translucent crystals to colorless in the smaller and more transparent crystals.
    • The country's queen arrived on a milk-white racing camel.
    • Her skin was milk-white and inhumanly perfect, without a single freckle or flaw.
    • He hardly ever went outside except to get the newspaper and, once in a blue moon, mow the lawn, and so his skin was milk-white and blue-veined.
    • Be it milk-white jasmine balls or rose garlands, this is the place where one can just walk into the flower market for a cheap bargain to place both bulk and small retail orders.
    Synonyms
    white, pallid, pasty, pasty-faced, wan, colourless, anaemic, bloodless, washed out, peaky, peakish, ashen, ashen-faced, ashy, chalky, chalk-white, grey, whitish, white-faced, whey-faced, waxen, waxy, blanched, drained, pinched, green, ghastly, sickly, sallow, as white as a sheet, as white as a ghost, deathly pale, cadaverous, corpse-like, looking as if one had seen a ghost
 
 

Definition of milk-white in US English:

milk-white

adjectiveˈmilkˌ(h)wītˈmɪlkˌ(h)waɪt
  • Of the opaque white color of milk.

    she had milk-white skin
    Example sentencesExamples
    • His skin was milk-white, with cheeks currently tinted in a light blush of pink.
    • Their color varies from milk-white in the larger and more translucent crystals to colorless in the smaller and more transparent crystals.
    • The country's queen arrived on a milk-white racing camel.
    • Be it milk-white jasmine balls or rose garlands, this is the place where one can just walk into the flower market for a cheap bargain to place both bulk and small retail orders.
    • Where this milk fell to earth, a milk-white lily spontaneously grew.
    • His low brow was usually furrowed, his shoulders round, his face milk-white and pinched.
    • But then the screen showed him for a second, and they could plainly see it was a little boy, no older than eight, with milk-white skin and glassy, distant eyes.
    • He hardly ever went outside except to get the newspaper and, once in a blue moon, mow the lawn, and so his skin was milk-white and blue-veined.
    • Her skin was milk-white and inhumanly perfect, without a single freckle or flaw.
    • I awoke Saturday morning to a pallid, milk-white sky that was seemingly unable to decide whether to rain or snow.
    • Then his milk-white face turned ashen, and suddenly his pale blue eyes opened widely.
    • His skin still glistened milk-white and gaunt as ever.
    • He saw people riding milk-white horses with tails dyed scarlet.
    • The boy had enticing, green-blue eyes with little flecks of gold, milk-white skin with a slight tint of pink to the cheeks, and little freckles towards the tip of his nose.
    • The milk-white duck-bone soup was slightly acrid.
    • His milk-white hair fluttered around his face, and his pale blue eyes flashed beneath his enormous horn-rimmed glasses.
    Synonyms
    white, pallid, pasty, pasty-faced, wan, colourless, anaemic, bloodless, washed out, peaky, peakish, ashen, ashen-faced, ashy, chalky, chalk-white, grey, whitish, white-faced, whey-faced, waxen, waxy, blanched, drained, pinched, green, ghastly, sickly, sallow, as white as a sheet, as white as a ghost, deathly pale, cadaverous, corpse-like, looking as if one had seen a ghost
 
 
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