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off-white
[ awf-hwahyt, -wahyt, of- ]
adjective
- white mixed with a small amount of gray, yellow, or other light color.
noun
- an off-white color.
off-white
noun
- a colour, such as cream or bone, consisting of white mixed with a tinge of grey or with a pale hue
adjective
- of such a colour
an off-white coat
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of off-white1
Example Sentences
He was waiting at the cross walk with his back facing me wearing an off-white mohair sweater.
“I went into department stores and the first dress I saw on the mannequin was off-white lace, and I was like, ‘This is gonna be it,’†Windey said.
More than 1,200 years ago, an unidentified Maya artist decorated an extraordinary, 16-inch circular ceramic plate, painting one half in flat, nearly black slip and the other a creamy off-white.
On Wednesday nights when I was growing up, a local Baptist preacher drove an off-white school bus through our community to pick up kids for his church’s weekly children’s program.
I scanned the stacks of books teetering against one wall, not on shelves but layered like bricks, and a slim off-white spine called to me: Sylvia Plath’s "Ariel."
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