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ash gray
noun
- pale gray resembling the color of ashes.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of ash gray1
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Example Sentences
Soft steel and cast iron will have the appearance of an ash-gray tint; tempered steels will be black; and pudp.
In a few days the town of Brussels swarmed with ash-gray garments such as were usually worn by mendicant friars and penitents.
On shaded sandstone, intermingled with an ash-gray, crustose thallus, which appeared like a sterile Pertusaria.
Ash gray is given for 30 pounds of woollen stuff, by one pound of gall-nuts, 1⁄2 lib.
Mouse-gray is obtained, when with the same proportions as for ash-gray, a small quantity of alum is introduced.
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