yellowwhiteとは 意味・読み方・使い方

形容詞

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

1. A color that is predominantly white but with a subtle yellowish tint.
   • 1839, A Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures, & Mines, page 848:

     When heated to redness, with free access of air, it absorbs oxygen with rapidity, and changes first into a pulverulent gray protoxide, and by longer ignition, into a yellow-white powder, called putty of tin.

   • 1891, Frederic William Farrar, Darkness and Dawn, Or, Scenes in the Days of Nero, An Historic Tale, page 76:

     "Yes. It is not really golden, you know; it is that yellow-white plant, which grows on an old oak in the wood."

   • 1898, Elizabeth Von Arnim, Elizabeth and Her German Garden, page 55:

     My roses have behaved as well on the whole as was to be expected, and the Viscountess Folkestones and Laurette Messimys have been most beautiful, the latter being quite the loveliest things in the garden, each flower an exquisite loose cluster of coral-pink petals paling at the base to a yellow-white.

   • 2020, Peizeng Yang, Atlas of Uveitis, Diagnosis and Treatment, page 55:

     White or yellow-white clumps are usually observed in infectious endophthalmitis (Fig. 4.93)