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ˈslate-coloured, a.
[slate n.1 Cf. prec.]
Of the colour of slate, usually bluish-grey.
1801Shaw Gen. Zool. II. ii. 319 Slate-coloured Antelope. 1811Ibid. VIII. i. 261 Slate-coloured Creeper. 1812A. Wilson Amer. Ornith. VI. 13 Slate-colored Hawk, Falco Pennsylvanicus. 1836–7Dickens Sk. Boz (1850) 135/2 Grandmamma in a high cap, and slate-coloured silk gown. 1871Darwin Desc. Man ii. xvi. (1890) 481 Young swans are slate-coloured. 1874Coues Birds N.W. 162 Passerella Townsendii,..Slate-coloured Sparrow. |