albescent

Adjective

albescent (comparative more albescent, superlative most albescent)

1. Becoming white or whitish; moderately white.
   • This proceedeth from the variety of air (commonly found in islands) which sometimes being moist, sullies and renders the cornelian pale or albescent, after the manner of glass, which when breath'd upon, is clouded with a pale whitish colour, but upon change to a drier air, which will often happen...1726, The British Apollo: containing two thousand answers to curious questions in most arts and sciences, serious, comical, and humorous, approved of by many of the most learned and ingenious of both...
   • Albescent shapes played over the walls, teasing hundreds of drifty pleasures from his brain.2002, Steve Aylett, The Velocity Gospel, Scar Garden 2010 (Complete Accomplice), p. 180