Usage examples (16)

• Their breath hung in the air, their words made visible in albescent puffs, as connected as an island chain.
• The same ancestor - Latin albus, alba, album - has issue in several English scions: alb, albedo, albescent, albumen, etc.
• The passage let into a circular sanctorum, its albescent walls worked in intricate arabesques, its high vaulted ceiling held aloft by fluted alabaster columns.
• There the true gods led him to the subterranean pool where eyeless, albescent fish swam around the clutch of huge eggs, as hard as the finest armor, left there countless...