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pale as milk

pale as milk adjective: very pale.

Adjective

pale as milk (not comparable)

  1. (simile) Very pale.
    • 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]
    • 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

Questions about pale as milk

What does pale as milk mean?
Pale as milk means very pale.
What part of speech is pale as milk?
Pale as milk is an adjective.

Words near pale as milk in the dictionary

  1. pale
  2. pale ale
  3. pale ales
  4. pale as a ghost
  5. pale as death
  6. pale as milk
  7. pale blue dot
  8. pale by comparison
  9. pale chub
  10. pale clouded yellow
  11. pale clouded yellows

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