Definitions
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- adj. of white tinged with grey
Etymologies
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Examples
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And, below it, separated from the main colour-mass by a line of gray-white fog, or line of sea, was another and smaller streak of ruddy-coloured wine.
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The independent companies wore gray-white uniforms with blue cuffs and lining, brass buttons, blue breeches and stockings, and hats laced with false gold.
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"The stone is almost like wheat," she says, of its ability to take on different forms, while retaining its pure gray-white color.
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Beyond the farm-equipment boneyard sat a quasi-neighborhood of double-wide trailers, all slate green and dank gray-white, sidled up to their driveways close to the road.
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I even adopted his walrus mustache early in my writing life and still display this once brown, now gray-white, [now white and unruly] old European whisker banner, proudly for over 40 years – razor free.
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In the summer she had shaved her head for the cancer charity at her office and now sported a gray-white bristle on the crown and iron grey tufts around her ears.
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Her wiry gray-white hair was held in place under a clear plastic rain hood and she stared ahead through the thick lenses of her wide-rimmed glasses.
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The plaster bits and nails they found scattered about suggested a gray-white plastered interior and a wooden ceiling.
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In the distance, the ghostly, gray-white silhouettes of distant mountains formed a backdrop for the clouds, which he noted were below his eye level.
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The air was soon filled with the shards of bones, daggers, and clubs of skeletal remains forming a broad gray-white river.
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