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pale as milk en · ADJ

Meanings

1. (not-comparable, qualifier:simile) Very pale.
   • Très amusant, cheri.^([sic]) You look as pale as milk. Are you coming down with something? 1990 December, Stephen King, “The Moving Finger”, in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction; republished in Nightmares & Dreamscapes, Signet, 1993, published 1994, page 233:
   • O ſiſters three, come, come, to mee, / With hands as pale as milke, / Lay them in gore, ſince you haue ſhore / With ſheeres, his threede of ſilke. c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, A Midsommer Nights Dreame. […] (First Quarto), London: […] [Richard Bradock] for Thomas Fisher, […], published 1600, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i]:

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milk-white