marbled white
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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White’s claims about the return of the marbled white is supported by data from the UK Butterfly Monitoring Scheme, the world’s longest-running dataset for butterfly distribution.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 13, 2020
On this site alone, he had tried the high brown fritillary, Scotch argus, small heath, marbled white, grizzled skipper, wood white and chequered skipper.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 13, 2020
It shows how the marbled white was absent from the Midlands in the 1980s, but is today found continuously in a northwards line through Nottinghamshire and South Yorkshire.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 13, 2020
Lloyd shrugs these locations loose, and instead places a marbled white wall behind his players and gives them the barest props.
From The New Yorker ● Sep. 9, 2019
Ours was a long one in the middle and much grander than the rest, because it had a bit of marbled white oil cloth on it for a cloth.
From Elizabeth Visits America by Glyn, Elinor
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