Nascent Drama

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It is called white paper because it was originally bound in white.

 

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Heraldry

 

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In English heraldry, white or silver (color) signified brightness, purity, virtue, and innocence.[3]

 

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Arthur Charles Fox-Davies has argued that white can be considered a tincture in heraldry separate from its use to represent argent, and in fact the labels borne on the arms, crests and supporters of members of the British Royal Family other than the reigning sovereign are invariably shown as white.

 

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Horticulture

 

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Senecio cineraria is an old fashioned and popular garden plant due to its white-wooly foliage.[4]

 

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Literature

 

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White could be associated with horror.

 

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The famous chapter 42 ("The Whiteness of The Whale") of Herman Melville's Moby-Dick speculates about it.

 

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Magic (paranormal)

 

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Healing or "good" paranormal magic is called White magic

 

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A Treatise on White Magic is a book by Alice Bailey, a Theosophist. [5]

 

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Meteorology

 

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White is commonly the color of snow and ice.

 

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Whiteout is a weather condition in which visibility is reduced and surface definition lost in snowy environments.

 

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Military

 

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A white flag is an international sign of either surrender, or truce, that is, it is a sign of peaceful intent, typically at time of war.

 

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To "show the white feather" is to display cowardice.

 

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In cockfighting, a white feather in the tail is considered a mark of inferior breeding.

 

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In Victorian England a purported coward would be presented with a white feather.