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

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

Then he dozes off to the soothing swoosh of an electronic "white sound," sleep-inducing device he keeps near his bed.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

Her mouth was small and her teeth, though exposed to all the destructive purposes to which they apply them, were white, sound and unbroken.

From A Complete Account of the Settlement at Port Jackson by Tench, Watkin