| 单词 | greyish white |
| 释义 | > as lemmasgreyish white C1. Modifying adjectives and nouns of colour, as greyish blue, greyish green, greyish white, etc. ΚΠ 1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball ii. lxxvii. 250 The franke Sage hath..leaues..of a grayishe white colour. 1651 J. Ellistone tr. J. Böhme Signatura Rerum viii. 72 If the white colour [of an apple] be of a grayish Brown, then Saturn is strong therein. 1697 C. K. Art's Master-piece 19 Proceed to put your faint blue Shadows about the Corners of the Eyes,..and the greyish blue under the Eyes. 1752 J. Hill Gen. Nat. Hist. III. 259 The colour is a dusky greyish-brown. 1788 J. Bolton Hist. Fungusses Halifax I. 12 The pileus hemispherical..of a greyish blue colour. 1831 D. Brewster Treat. Optics vii. 70 The effect of all the colours when combined will be a greyish-white. 1843 J. E. Portlock Rep. Geol. Londonderry 211 Hypersthene..passes into a greyish-green diallage. 1873 C. H. Ralfe Outl. Physiol. Chem. 200 This..forms a greyish black precipitate. 1888 Athenæum 10 Nov. 632/1 A little boy in a greyish-olive smock frock. 1920 A. L. Howard Man. Timbers of World 209 The wood is light greyish-yellow in colour, close and fine in the grain. 1968 R. T. Peterson & M. McKenny Field Guide Wildflowers Northeastern & North-central N. Amer. 246 Rabbit's-foot Clover... The soft silky foliage and the fuzzy, grayish-pink heads of bloom are unmistakable. 2001 S. D. Soderlind Consumer Econ. iv. ix. 321 The grayish greens would be associated with lesser conformity to the ten ideal attributes. < as lemmas |
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