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- adj. of grey tinged with blue
Examples
“As we looked down from Thorpe's Brow, the clouds re-grouped and an advancing shower appeared to offer a blue-grey ladder to heaven.”
“I like the retro-romance novel cover look, and the lush blue-grey & bronzish hues .. which are certainly strong signifiers that you're in wold Newton territory.”
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“She had long been familiar with these extraordinary structures, these geometric blue-grey slabs rising against the backdrop of the cement-grey, yellowish, bruised waves of the Bristol Channel.”
“At any rate, the eastern sky was a bank of pale clouds that shed soft, spread rays of blue and white upon a blue-grey sea.”
“The species has an overall blue-grey or cream colour and its individual polyps are small, numerous and a shade of brown.”
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“In that world of white they seemed even more beautiful: the soft, dove-like blue-grey of his crown, and the rich warm ginger of their upper parts.”
“The first migrant was a pair of wheatears and, as always, I was surprised at just how colourful they look, especially the male, with the blue-grey back, black wings and orange flush on the breast.”
“Across the bed she would be lying, one bare foot keeping time to the music's flirty tempo, pulsing blue-grey circles through her lips and tongue.”
“When she was a child, she kept on her bedroom mantelpiece a little oblong blue-grey leaden plate saying: "danger of death".”
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“Kerry Blue Terrier: As its name implies, this breed has a beautiful blue-grey coat.”
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