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steel gray

noun

  1. dark metallic gray with a bluish tinge.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of steel gray1

First recorded in 1835–45

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Example Sentences

And his hair—that steel gray and pepper—was the same curly, just-touching-the-collar length it was when he was arrested Dec. 11.

Then the fox started across the steel-gray glair, picking his steps that he might have a firm foothold.

Steel gray were sky and water, sombre the iron-bound land, whilst the whereabouts of the sun became a scientific abstraction.

The Indian-brown 92 of his face reddened darkly; a gleam came into his steel-gray eyes.

Susan refused to put this motion, standing quietly before the excited audience, stern and somber in her steel-gray silk dress.

Sea birds wheel above them in the steel-gray air; they build their nests there.

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