pale as milk

adjective

Very pale.

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adjectivepale as milk (not comparable)
  1. not comparablesimileVery pale.

    Très amusant, cheri.^([sic]) You look as pale as milk. Are you coming down with something?

    1990 December, Stephen King, “The Moving Finger”, in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction; republished in Nightmares & Dreamscapes, Signet, 1993, published 1994, page 233
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    O ſiſters three, come, come, to mee, / With hands as pale as milke, / Lay them in gore, ſince you haue ſhore / With ſheeres, his threede of ſilke.

    c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, A Midsommer Nights Dreame. […] (First Quarto), London: […] [Richard Bradock] for Thomas Fisher, […], published 1600, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i]
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