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  • I did rather wonder, in Act I, why on earth all these people going to the theatre and paying calls if they were still in mourning for some close relative, but the black and dove-grey gowns of Act I were lovely, and made the cream-colored confections of Act II seem lighter and more frivolous by comparison.

    A Little Night Music deliasherman 2010

  • She sat before the window, nearly blending into the wall in her simple dove-grey gown.

    Valentines, part the first mllelaurel 2009

  • “Disaster,” I said flatly, shedding my dove-grey mules they pinch.

    Exit the Actress Priya Parmar 2011

  • “Disaster,” I said flatly, shedding my dove-grey mules they pinch.

    Exit the Actress Priya Parmar 2011

  • I did rather wonder, in Act I, why on earth all these people going to the theatre and paying calls if they were still in mourning for some close relative, but the black and dove-grey gowns of Act I were lovely, and made the cream-colored confections of Act II seem lighter and more frivolous by comparison.

    A Little Night Music deliasherman 2010

  • Mary of Denmark wore one in white, while both the bride-to-be Victoria and Mette-Marit of Norway were in dove-grey.

    Yvonne Yorke: Princess Victoria's Wedding & The Triumph Of Style In Sweden (PHOTOS, POLL) 2010

  • Beyond the tilled plain, beyond the toy roofs, there would be a slow suffusion of inutile loveliness, a low sun in a platinum haze with a warm, peeled-peach tinge pervading the upper edge of a two-dimensional dove-grey cloud fusing with the distant amorous mist.

    Archive 2008-03-01 ____Maggie 2008

  • Beyond the tilled plain, beyond the toy roofs, there would be a slow suffusion of inutile loveliness, a low sun in a platinum haze with a warm, peeled-peach tinge pervading the upper edge of a two-dimensional dove-grey cloud fusing with the distant amorous mist.

    Nabokov's Art as Story ____Maggie 2008

  • Carrie Bradshaw's tasteful dove-grey apartment was ceilingless; in her Mexican hotel room, where she slept and wept through the grief of being stood up at the altar, a microphone hovered like the promise of death.

    Is it time to put Sex and the City out of its misery? Jo Elvin 2010

  • Mary of Denmark wore one in white, while both the bride-to-be Victoria and Mette-Marit of Norway were in dove-grey.

    Princess Victoria's Wedding <![CDATA[&]]> The Triumph Of Style In Sweden (PHOTOS, POLL) Yvonne Yorke 2010

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