albiness
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Etymology edit
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Noun edit
albiness (plural albinesses)
- (archaic) A female albino.
- 1859, Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., The Professor at the Breakfast-Table:
- I saw an albiness in London once, for sixpence, (including the inspection of a stuffed boa-constrictor,) who looked as if she had been boiled in milk
References edit
- “albiness”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.