Definitions
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- adjective of white tinged with blue
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Examples
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A bomb in Rome, a flash of bluish-white light, and photojournalist Josh Ryder's world exploded.
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The article incorrectly identified the forbidden paint as bluish-white cadmium.
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Doctors forbade her from painting with bluish-white cadmium or other potentially toxic paints.
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Maybe if she'd had her daughter's caramel skin, not this bluish-white, which she keeps out of the sun or freckles bloom in smudges?
Spray-Tans in the 70s Susan Rukeyser 2011
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Presently, along the horizon, entirely completing the circle of sea and sky, the tight-packed shapes of the trade wind clouds began to show through the mist; and as they took form they spilled with rose-colour at their upper edges, while their bases were a pulsing, bluish-white.
CHAPTER XXV 2010
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The Hamilton cover is at least readable; the type is distinct from the backgrounds, if not really distinct enough (I dare you to look at it as a refractive surface under fluorescent lights and see how well the bluish-white lettering contrasts with the blue background ... not!).
Book Cover Smackdown! The Reality Dysfunction vs. Heretics vs. The Kragen 2009
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Skye thought a moment, then spoke rapidly in Latin, creating a ball of bluish-white light about the size of her thumb that drifted ahead of her.
Crusade Nancy Holder 2010
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Half-decomposed tables and shabby wooden chairs, pushed to the walls, were bathed in stark bluish-white light.
Crusade Nancy Holder 2010
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A deafening machine kicked on, distorting the air, followed by a steady flash of bluish-white light.
No Mercy Lori Armstrong 2010
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A deafening machine kicked on, distorting the air, followed by a steady flash of bluish-white light.
No Mercy Lori Armstrong 2010
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