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Milk-quhite, a. Also: mylk(e)- and -quhyt(e, -whait. [ME. and e.m.E. milk-white, mylk-whyte, milc-whit (Layamon), OE. meolc-hwít.] White as milk, pure white.Common in Douglas. a1400 Leg. S. ix. 50.
& mylk-quhyt flesche but ony lake Ib. l. 1172. 1501 Doug. Pal. Hon. iii. 74.
With blanschite saill milk quhite as ony snaw Id. Æn. vii. iv. 189.
Thre hundreth mylk quhite [Sm. mylke quhite] hors and far Ib. viii. ii. 35.
A mylk quhite sow Ib. viii. vii. 39.
Hir milk quhite armys Ib. i. vii. 98, iii. ii. 103, V. x. 39, etc. a1570-86 Maitl. F. cxxx. 68. 1588 King Cat. (1588) 26 b.
The head with the milk-quhyt kraig 1600-1610 Melvill 270.
Milk whait dowes
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