whites
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whites
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whites pl (plural only)
- A set of white clothes, especially as a uniform.
- 1959, Anthony Burgess, Beds in the East (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 444:
- He walked somewhat mincingly, thin, in soiled whites, his brief-case under his arm.
- Linen, especially laundry, that is white.
- (informal) leukorrhea.
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- Distinguished from other classes of cloth products because they could be bleached.
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whites
- third-person singular simple present indicative of white