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off-white

/awf-hwahyt, -wahyt, of-/US // ˈɔfˈʰwaɪt, -ˈwaɪt, ˈɒf- //

米白色,淡白色,米白色的,灰白色

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : white mixed with a small amount of gray, yellow, or other light color.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : an off-white color.

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Examples

  • The breakdown of the 114th Congress is 80 percent white, 80 percent male, and 92 percent Christian.

  • If Congress accurately reflected our nation on the basis of race, about 63 percent would be white, not 80 percent.

  • There were rumors of shrieks and flashes emanating from the well, and reports of a figure in white.

  • Although the blood-spattered offices will be off-limits, staff have vowed to continue producing the magazine.

  • The FBI raided his home in 2000 with an affidavit questioning his use of $200,000 from his white supremacist fundraising.

  • And she would be wearing some of the jewels with the white dress—just a few, not many, of course.

  • None other would dare to show herself unveiled to a stranger, and a white man at that.

  • One would not have wanted her white neck a mite less full or her beautiful arms more slender.

  • That evening in the gondola, with one old and two newer friends, is marked with a white stone in my recollection.

  • Why not have sought out the pure white lime-rocks of the flat country, or the grey granite of the hills?