Definitions
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- adjective of a dull shade of white
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Examples
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Each carried several dull-white missiles slung from pylons under the wings,
Carrie Douglass, Keith 1991
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His eye was caught first by the dull-white slash of a tent roof; then the wagon took shape.
Stands a Calder Man Janet Dailey 1983
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His eye was caught first by the dull-white slash of a tent roof; then the wagon took shape.
Stands a Calder Man Janet Dailey 1983
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Other structures supported giant mirrors — each stretching miles across, Daeman realized through his screaming — which were reflecting or beaming blue or yellow or dull-white shafts of energy to still other mirrors.
Ilium Simmons, Dan 1981
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The ripe seeds are dull-white or greenish-white, mottled and clouded with purple.
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A sub-variety of the Common Sieva; the principal if not the only mark of distinction being in the variegated character of the seeds, which are dull-white, spotted and streaked with purple.
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The ripe seeds are dull-white or greenish-white, with veins radiating from the eye; broad, kidney-shaped, much flattened, seven-eighths of an inch long, and two-thirds of an inch broad.
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The _European white birch_ (_Betula alba_) has a dull-white bark like the native white birch, but has smooth terminal twigs instead of rough ones.
Studies of Trees Jacob Joshua Levison
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August, in long clusters; and are of a dull-white color.
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The ripe beans are dull-white, veined, oblong, often shortened at the ends, a third of an inch long, and nearly a fourth of an inch in width and thickness.
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