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  • adjective of grey tinged with brown

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Examples

  • And it was, it was that oddly purply brown-grey that you get from dried grapevine twined into wreaths.

    Barnstorming on an Invisible Segway 2010

  • And it was, it was that oddly purply brown-grey that you get from dried grapevine twined into wreaths.

    mrissa: Why nobody puts me in charge of marketing children's clothes. mrissa 2010

  • Nothing, for instance, was growing — it was an expanse of brown-grey earth, craggy as an acne scar, baked and sun-dried and barren.

    That Pesky Question of Foreign Domination | ATTACKERMAN 2009

  • There was a rare, thunderous snowstorm here before Christmas and the sidewalks are still piled with brown-grey slush, black ice.

    blog: January 2009 2009

  • The pictures taken on the ground show an apparently empty brown-grey, solid building, but nothing that seems to indicate it is being used for nuclear purposes.

    the cia video 2008

  • If she peered from the verandah into the brown-grey water, she thought she saw her three friends floating immaterially below, trussed in mossy ferns.

    An Atlas of Impossible Longing Anuradha Roy 2008

  • If she peered from the verandah into the brown-grey water, she thought she saw her three friends floating immaterially below, trussed in mossy ferns.

    An Atlas of Impossible Longing Anuradha Roy 2008

  • The common tern chicks are nearly as big as their parents - though they still beg for wriggling silver fish - and have exchanged their speckled down for mottled brown-grey feathers and rakish charcoal caps above white foreheads.

    High summer Carla 2008

  • If she peered from the verandah into the brown-grey water, she thought she saw her three friends floating immaterially below, trussed in mossy ferns.

    An Atlas of Impossible Longing Anuradha Roy 2008

  • The common tern chicks are nearly as big as their parents - though they still beg for wriggling silver fish - and have exchanged their speckled down for mottled brown-grey feathers and rakish charcoal caps above white foreheads.

    Archive 2008-08-01 Carla 2008

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