albiness

English

Etymology

albino +‎ -ess

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ælˈbaɪnɛs/, /ælˈbiːnɛs/

Noun

albiness (plural albinesses)

  1. (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
  • albiness in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913

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