Definitions
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- adjective of brown tinged with grey
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Examples
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She sat - nearly collapsed - in the chair beside him, trembling fingers stealing out to stroke the surface of her skin, all folded neatly, warm and soft and mottled grey-brown.
Thor's Day lynxreign 2009
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Apart from a rich green of dog's mercury and wild garlic leaves crawling across muddy ground, the overall colour was like the mood – grey: grey-brown, grey-green, grey-grey.
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I could feel its gaze as I looked at the grey-brown furry glove of pink, torn flesh that had been grazing around the edge of a wood before making a fateful hop into the road.
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She sat - nearly collapsed - in the chair beside him, trembling fingers stealing out to stroke the surface of her skin, all folded neatly, warm and soft and mottled grey-brown.
Places You Haunt stringmonkey 2009
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Lime seeds spiralled on the westerly, helicoptering out of Edge Wood overhead into a field of barley which hadn't crackled in the sun for weeks but had set instead to a grimy grey-brown sulk.
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Everything seemed to be made of stone—and not the grey-brown rocks of the mountains, either, but a pale rock, almost white with streaks of warm colors in it.
Pathfinder Orson Scott Card 2010
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That heavy, succulent slab, it oozes juice as you cut into its grey-brown flesh – a heady indulgence, cooked to medium-rare perfection.
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A flurry of grey-brown wings and the bird was gone.
Country diary: Wenlock Edge Paul Evans 2010
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That heavy, succulent slab, it oozes juice as you cut into its grey-brown flesh – a heady indulgence, cooked to medium-rare perfection.
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That heavy, succulent slab, it oozes juice as you cut into its grey-brown flesh – a heady indulgence, cooked to medium-rare perfection.
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