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silver-grey, a. and n.
[silver n. 19.]
A. adj. Of a silvery or silver-flecked grey colour; also, having silvery grey hair.
1607W. Barksted Mirrha (1876) 22 You blushing girles, and parents siluer-gray. 1686Lond. Gaz. No. 2121/4 Lost a fine large silver grey Mare. 1785Smellie Buffon's Nat. Hist. (1791) VII. 272 The silver-gray fox of North America..is the isatis. 1810Sporting Mag. XXXVI. 102 A silver-grey cock belonging to Mr. John Angood. 1857Dufferin Lett. High Lat. (ed. 3) 268 The silver-grey ridges of gneiss and mica slate that hem in the Nordland shore. 1897M. Kingsley W. Africa 177 Wreaths and clouds of silver-gray mist.
B. n.
a. A silvery grey colour.
1712tr. Pomet's Hist. Drugs I. 16 These little Insects..are of a Silver Grey. 1792Burns The Posie v, The hawthorn..wi' it's locks o' siller grey. 1864Tennyson Ringlet 6 Never chilling touch of Time Will turn it silver⁓gray. 1907M. Peacock Lincolnshire Rhymes 43 Because his hair has caught A touch of silver-gray.
b. U.S. Politics. (See quot. 1859.)
1850N.Y. Tribune 18 Oct. 5/2, I shall gladly fight on in this cause so long as I shall live, and ask no higher post than the proud one of a private in the Silver Grays. 1856Househ. Words 9 Aug. 86 Silver-gray..politically means a worshipper of the past,—a hoary-headed conservative. 1859Bartlett Dict. Amer. (ed. 2), Silver Grays. This term originated in the State of New York, and was applied to the conservative portion of the Whig party... It was observed that many were men whose locks were silvered by age, which drew forth the remark from some one present, ‘There go the silver grays!’
c. A variety of Dorking fowl having silvery grey plumage.
1889E. Brown Poultry 45 Silver Greys.—This is perhaps the most beautiful of all the Dorking tribe. |