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pearly white
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Origin of pearly white1
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Example Sentences
It crystallises in pearly white plates, which are odourless and almost tasteless.
The external membrane is thin, smooth, and generally colourless, or of a pearly white.
The missing colour, yellow, should not be flaunted against her carnations and azure and pearly white.
How pearly-white her face was against her black hair under her fur toque, and how her eyes spoke!
She was dressed to-night in a filmy vesture of opalescent or pearly white, partly diaphanous, and having a deep fringe of gold.
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