white sound

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At the other spectrum is the smooth, white sound of boy choristers, which some mixed choirs try to emulate by having the female sopranos adopt what is known as straight-tone singing.

From New York Times • Jan. 20, 2016

Its vital functions are controlled by a battery of electronic mechanisms that, among other things, wash the air and launder the noise of the city with "white sound," an almost imperceptible brrr.

From Time Magazine Archive

If we do bestir ourselves, we ride out to big airports and climb onto big planes that are as amiably de-cultured as Muzak, as white sound.

From Time Magazine Archive

One spy fiction dodge, turning on the shower, is useless since the "white sound" of falling water can be electronically filtered out from human voices.

From Time Magazine Archive

She returned his gaze from unabashed dark eyes, and then laughed, showing teeth white, sound, and smooth as split hazelnuts.

From Victorian Short Stories of Troubled Marriages by Kipling, Rudyard