milkwhiteとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

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

形容詞

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.

参考

• pale as milk