Of greyish white.

Covered with fine whitish hairs or down.

synonym: hoary.

Roget 430: white; milk-white, snow-white; snowy; niveous^†, candid, chalky; hoar, hoary; silvery; argent, argentine; canescent^†, cretaceous, lactescent^†.    whitish, creamy, pearly, fair, blond; blanched etc. v.; high in tone, light.    white as a sheet, white as driven snow, white as a lily, white as silver; like ivory etc. n.. ... show more