off-white
Use Off-white in a sentence
adjective
1.
white mixed with a small amount of gray, yellow, or other light color.
noun
2.
an off-white color.
Origin:
1925–30
1925–30
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| off-white | |
| —n | |
| 1. | a colour, such as cream or bone, consisting of white mixed with a tinge of grey or with a pale hue |
| —adj | |
| 2. | of such a colour: an off-white coat |
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Off-white
is always a great word to know.
So is bezoar. Does it mean:
| a calculus or concretion found in the stomach or intestines of certain animals, esp. ruminants, formerly reputed to be an effective remedy for poison. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
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Example sentences
Ketamine comes in a clear liquid and a white or off-white powder form.
They are gray-brown to olive-green on top with off-white undersides, and they have heavily serrated, triangular teeth.
It must be a color photo with a white or off-white background, printed on photo-quality paper.
The pages of the books even have an off-white coloring and a visual representation of paper texture.
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