middle white
Britishnoun
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The players of Ajax wear white shirts with a thick red stripe down the middle, white shorts and white socks.
From The Guardian
With the king caught in the middle, White wastes no time delivering the kill: 15.
From Washington Times
Word had gone round during the day that old Major, the prize Middle White boar, had had a strange dream on the previous night and wished to communicate it to the other animals.
From Literature
By a decree in 1790 it was ordained that in the navy the flag on the bowsprit—the jack—should be composed of three equal bands placed vertically, that next the staff being red, the middle white, and the third blue.
From Project Gutenberg
Description.—Brownish olive, head reddish; wings, tail, and hind back darker: beneath white; sides of the head and of the neck and breast chestnut-red; flanks barred with white and black; crissum black in the middle, white on each side; bill olivaceous; feet yellowish: whole length 6·75 inches, wing 3·1, tail 1·9.
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