milk-white

See also: milkwhite

English

Alternative forms

• milkwhite

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English milke white, mylk-whyte, mylkquyte, mylk-whit, milc-whit, from Old English meolchwīt (“milk-white”), equivalent to milk +‎ white. Compare Dutch melkwit (“milk-white”), German milchweiß (“milk-white”), Swedish mjölkvit (“milk-white”).

Adjective

milk-white (comparative more milk-white, superlative most milk-white)

1. Having a slightly bluish white color, that of milk.
   • 1860, Charles Dickens, Captain Murderer:

     He made love in a coach and six, and married in a coach and twelve, and all his horses were milk-white horses with one red spot on the back which he caused to be hidden by the harness. For, the spot would come there, though every horse was milk-white when Captain Murderer bought him. And the spot was young bride's blood.

Translations

having a slightly bluish white color, that of milk

• Arabic: لَبَنِيّ (labaniyy), شِيرْبَام (šīrbām)
• Bulgarian: млечнобя́л (mlečnobjál)
• Dutch: melkwit (nl)
• Danish: mælkehvid
• Finnish: maidonvalkoinen
• French: laiteux (fr)
• German: milchweiß (de), milchweiss (de) (Switzerland, Liechtenstein), schneeweiß (de), schneeweiss (de) (Switzerland, Liechtenstein)
• Greek: please add this translation if you can
• Ido: laktoblanka (io)
• Latin: lacteus
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: melkehvit, melkekvit, mjølkehvit, mjølkekvit

  Nynorsk: mjølkekvit

• Polish: mlecznobiały (pl) m
• Russian: молочно-бе́лый (ru) (moločno-bélyj)
• Scottish Gaelic: bàn-gheal
• Swedish: mjölkvit
• Welsh: llaethwyn

See also

• pale as milk