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free from moral blemish or impurity; unsullied; "in shining white armor" pure of summer nights in northern latitudes where the sun barely sets; "white nights" light being of the achromatic color of maximum lightness; having little or no hue owing to reflection of almost all incident light; "as white as fresh snow"; "a bride''s white dress" albescent (of hair) having lost its color; "the white hairs of old age" colorless dressed (or especially habited) in white; "white nuns" clothed (of coffee) having cream or milk added diluted benevolent; without malicious intent; "white magic"; "a white lie"; "that''s white of you" good glowing white with heat; "white flames"; "a white-hot center of the fire" hot restricted to whites only; "under segregation there were even white restrooms and white drinking fountains"; "a lily-white movement which would expel Negroes from the organization" segregated marked by the presence of snow; "a white Christmas"; "the white hills of a northern winter" covered of or belonging to a racial group having light skin coloration; "voting patterns within the white population" caucasoid, light-skinned United States educator who in 1865 (with Ezra Cornell) founded Cornell University and served as its first president (1832-1918) Australian writer (1912-1990) United States political journalist (1915-1986) (board games) the lighter pieces United States architect (1853-1906) United States writer noted for his humorous essays (1899-1985) the quality or state of the achromatic color of greatest lightness (bearing the least resemblance to black) a tributary of the Mississippi River that flows southeastward through northern Arkansas and southern Missouri a member of the Caucasoid race turn white; "This detergent will whiten your laundry" of a surface; not written or printed on; "blank pages"; "fill in the blank spaces"; "a clean page"; "wide white margins" empty (usually in the plural) trousers ash-colored or anemic looking from illness or emotion; "a face turned ashen"; "the invalid''s blanched cheeks"; "tried to speak with bloodless lips"; "a face livid with shock"; "lips...livid with the hue of death"- Mary W. Shelley; "lips white with terror colorless |
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