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Blue-white   /blu-waɪt/   Listen
Blue-white

adjective
1.
Of white tinged with blue.  Synonyms: bluish-white, cool-white.






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"Blue-white" Quotes from Famous Books



... An October day, with waves running in blue-white lines and a capful of wind. Three broad flags ripple out behind Where the masts will be: Royal Standard at the main, Admiralty flag at the fore, Union Jack at the mizzen. The hammers tap harder, faster, ...
— Men, Women and Ghosts • Amy Lowell

... Not a trace. I went out aft again. The cat sat on the wheel-box, washing her face. I hadn't noticed the scar on her head before, running down between her ears—rather a new scar—three or four days old, I should say. It looked ghastly and blue-white in the flat moonlight. I ran over and grabbed her up to heave her over the side—you understand how upset I was. Now you know a cat will squirm around and grab something when you hold it like that, generally ...
— Masterpieces of Mystery, Vol. 1 (of 4) - Ghost Stories • Various

... A blue-white, knotted rope of lightning burned down out of the clouds, and instantly a thunder-clap crashed, seeming to shake the foundations of the earth. Then it rolled, as if banging from cloud to cloud, and boomed along the peaks, and reverberated from deep to low, at last to rumble away into ...
— The Light of Western Stars • Zane Grey

... toward the group just outside the Med Ship. There was a sudden howl of a siren by the spaceport gate. A second car leaped as if to intercept the first. Its siren screamed again. Then bright sparks appeared near the first car's windows. Blasters rasped. Incredulously, Calhoun saw the blue-white of blaster bolts darting toward him. The men about him clawed for weapons. The ...
— The Hate Disease • William Fitzgerald Jenkins

... "whoever he is, he's going to take us where the white ice-floes are drifting. Look at the color of this craft; blue-white, ...
— Lost In The Air • Roy J. Snell

... a thin, new moon sank lower and lower. The grey figure grew less and less distinct to her, and before she knew it, she slept. When she woke, she was alone on the balcony, and the sunlight lay in blue-white pools upon the floor. For the first time in her life she had slept alone under the stars, with no one to settle her into her dreams or to attend on her when she woke from them, and suspicion and displeasure darkened for a moment the freshest awakening ...
— The Strange Cases of Dr. Stanchon • Josephine Daskam Bacon



Words linked to "Blue-white" :   neutral, achromatic, bluish-white



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