tin-white

[ tin-hwahyt, -wahyt ]

adjective

1. white, as the color of tin; bluish-white.

Word History and Origins

Origin of tin-white¹

First recorded in 1790–1800; tin + white

Example Sentences

Sometimes pyrites of a tin-white color are found mixed among the coal.

From Project Gutenberg

When we find such terms as tin-white or pinchbeck-brown, the metallic colour so denoted ought to start up in our memory without delay or search.

From Project Gutenberg

These masses are of a dull grey colour, owing to surface tarnish; only on fresh fractures is the colour tin-white with metallic lustre.

From Project Gutenberg

Arsenic is a constituent of the minerals arsenical iron, arsenical pyrites or mispickel, tin-white cobalt or smaltite, arsenical nickel, realgar, orpiment, pharmacolite and cobalt bloom, whilst it is also met with in small quantities in nearly all specimens of iron pyrites.

From Project Gutenberg

It usually occurs as lamellar or glanular masses, with a tin-white colour and metallic lustre, in limestone or in mineral veins often in association with ores of silver.

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