Citations:white


 * 1678 — John Bunyan. The Pilgrim's Progress.
 * But by and by, before they were aware, he led them both within the compass of a net, in which they were both so entangled that they knew not what to do; and with that the white robe fell off the black man's back.
 * They told him that they were poor pilgrims going to Zion, but were led out of their way by a black man, clothed in white, who bid us, said they, follow him, for he was going thither too.
 * Then the heavenly host gave a great shout, saying, "Blessed are they which are called unto the marriage supper of the Lamb." [Rev. 19:9] There came out also at this time to meet them, several of the King's trumpeters, clothed in white and shining raiment, who, with melodious noises, and loud, made even the heavens to echo with their sound.


 * 1813 — Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
 * "If you mean Darcy," cried her brother, "he may go to bed, if he chooses, before it begins — but as for the ball, it is quite a settled thing; and as soon as Nicholls has made white soup enough, I shall send round my cards."


 * 1843 — Charles Dickens. A Christmas Carol.
 * Wherefore the clerk put on his white comforter, and tried to warm himself at the candle; in which effort, not being a man of a strong imagination, he failed.
 * The office was closed in a twinkling, and the clerk, with the long ends of his white comforter dangling below his waist (for he boasted no great-coat), went down a slide on Cornhill, at the end of a lane of boys, twenty times, in honour of its being Christmas Eve, and then ran home to Camden Town as hard as he could pelt, to play at blindman's-buff.
 * He had been quite familiar with one old ghost, in a white waistcoat, with a monstrous iron safe attached to its ankle, who cried piteously at being unable to assist a wretched woman with an infant, whom it saw below, upon a door-step.

noun in the context of journalism
(but many probably not a journalism-specific sense, and some are surely just the general sense)


 * 1902, J. Henry Harris, The Young Journalist: His Work and how to Learn it, page 8:
 * The white between the words in printed matter is the space, and the practised eye at once detects a slovenly comp. by his spacing. There are five spaces, called em and en quads, thick, thin and hair spaces.
 * 1934, National Printer Journalist:
 * This is not true as the screen is merely solid dots interspersed by the white of the paper, whereas the true undertone of a color is that tone ...
 * 1963, J. D. Dodge, George Viner, The Practice of Journalism:
 * The colours are yellow, red, blue, and black which, with the white of the paper, may be mixed in varying densities to create any other colour. As the paper passes through the printing press, the first cylinder, or roller, applies ink that will supply ...
 * 1970, United States. Bureau of Naval Personnel, Journalist 1 & C.:
 * Then take a plain black studio card and darken the lefthand edge so that the white of the edge will not bleed through during a super.
 * 2009, T. Allan Taylor, James Robert Parish, Career Opportunities in Writing, Infobase Publishing (ISBN 9781438110905), page 328, definition of "reverse":
 * Copy is said to be “reversed” when the colors are reversed, as when the white is printed as black, and the black as white.