whites
Britishplural noun
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household linen or cotton goods, such as sheets
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white or off-white clothing, such as that worn for playing cricket
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an informal name for leucorrhoea
Example Sentences
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Another key to white’s popularity is its versatility, Tung says.
From Seattle Times • Jan. 20, 2022
"Rainmaker says white's black and black's white," he sings, "Says night's day and day's night."
From Salon • Oct. 23, 2020
The team believes the northern white's cousin - the southern white rhino - could be the key to saving the species.
From BBC • Jul. 19, 2017
All of which plays in white’s favor and explains why, as she put it, “the white dress has definitely reached that point of critical mass.”
From New York Times • May 13, 2015
He was still bent over staring with one eye into the lightless, unstirring void of the soldier in white’s mouth when the doctors and the M.P.s came running to help Yossarian pull him away.
From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller
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