OXFORD 9000
📚 adj • entry_id 1248

white

/waɪt/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
albar • albero (desus.) • albo • albugíneo • blanco • cano • cándido • dosalbo
Bright and colourless; reflecting equal quantities of all frequencies of visible light.
Write in black ink on white paper.
white as the whitest lily on a stream.
albar • albero (desus.) • albo • blanco • blanquiñoso • grencho
Of or relating to Caucasians (people with white complexion and European ancestry).
Ms. Ringwald finds a few things about these films regrettable. One thing she found "significantly disturbing," she wrote, "was how white the films are."
[…]more white corporations cognizant of the mounting purchasing power of the Negro consumer, have Negro representatives in the field[…].