whites

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /(h)waɪts/

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Noun

whites

1. plural of white
2. 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.

   1. The white uniform of a chef.
   2. (cricket) Cricket whites.
   3. (US, military) A white uniform formerly worn by officers of United States Marine Corps.
3. Linen, especially laundry, that is white.
4. (informal) leukorrhea.

Usage notes

• Distinguished from other classes of cloth products because they could be bleached.

Verb

whites

1. third-person singular simple present indicative of white

Anagrams

• swithe, withes