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Crane-coloured, ashen gray (quot. 1517).
attributive of the colour of crane's feathers.
Somewhat like ash in colour; greyish. Cf. cineritious, adj. 1.
Of an ashy hue, ash-coloured, ashen-gray; spec. in names of birds having ash-coloured feathers, as the cinereous crow, cinereous eagle, etc.