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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 Legends of the Saints ix. 50.
& mylk-quhyt flesche but ony lake a1400 Ib. l. 1172. 1501 Doug. Pal. Hon. iii. 74.
With blanschite saill milk quhite as ony snaw 1513 Id. Æn. vii. iv. 189.
Thre hundreth mylk quhite [Sm. mylke quhite] hors and far 1513 Ib. viii. ii. 35.
A mylk quhite sow 1513 Ib. viii. vii. 39.
Hir milk quhite armys 1513 Ib. i. vii. 98, iii. ii. 103, V. x. 39, etc. a1570-86 Maitland Folio MS cxxx. 68. 1588 King Catechism (1588) 26 b.
The head with the milk-quhyt kraig 1600-1610 Melvill 270.
Milk whait dowes
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