grey-painted

• “Happily, in the case of this pub, a hunk of a grey-painted building just outside Woodbridge in Suffolk, it does mean something.”

  The Guardian: Restaurant review: the British Larder

• “I don't think I've been asked to take my shoes off at the door since I was a child but that's the rule at all of these homes, in this case to protect some smart grey-painted floorboards.”

  The Guardian: One Fine Stay in London

• “The neatly-gentrified Mtsensk District plaster buckled in all the right grey-painted places.”

  Fictionaut: Soviet

• “The couple added bluish grey-painted hardwood floors and n all-white galley kitchen.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Andre Kikoski's Family Home

• “Walls of a third bedroom were removed to create more openness; bluish grey-painted hardwood floors and an all-white galley kitchen were added.”

  The Wall Street Journal: A Downtown Guy's Uptown Pad

• “Pausing to let a few other weary Greenwitch-makers pass, they crossed to the narrow grey-painted house that stood tallest of any in the terraced row.”

  Simon & Schuster: Greenwitch

• “Clinton and Mandela, who arrived on the island in separate helicopters, walked into the cell block with their arms around each other, and spent several minutes in the grey-painted room.”

  ANC Daily News Briefing

• “Burton was waiting on the landing outside a grey-painted door.”

  Hard Frost

• “Here, coasters used to bring in coal and wine from Europe, unloading with the aid of six grey-painted turntable cranes of decidedly venerable vintage.”

  Operation Sea Lion

• “That night, 20th August, was the last the Graf Spee was destined to spend in a home port; and although the sailing date and destination was a closely-guarded secret since the world was still at peace, few men aboard the grey-painted pocket battleship could fail to realise that they were on the eve of departure.”

  Graf Spee

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