#turn white

• White — To make something white, to dye, wash, or clean intensely a surface or a canvas to restore its immaculate color; to acquire gray hairs due to old age or stress. As an adjective, it represents the masculine plural form for 'alb' (white). As a plural masculine noun (substantivized), it historically denotes the members of the counter-revolutionary forces in the Russian Civil War, in opposition to 'the reds'.
• Turn white — To become white or whitish; to acquire a light, pale tint, to whiten gradually under the influence of age, light, or an external factor. It is an old phonetic or regional variant used in the past in certain popular dialects to express the greying of hair or the fading of fabrics.