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单词 pearly-grey
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pearly-grey
pearly-grey n. and adj.
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1757 J. Hill Eden 389/2 The Ground Colour of the Flower [sc. painted amethystine tulip] is a pearly grey, with a Tinge of faint crimson diffus'd all over it.
1840 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Sept. 311/1 The substantial richness of Correggio, with his pearly grays seen under a body of transparent colouring.
1872 W. Black Strange Adventures Phaeton xxix A costume of pearly grey.
1907 ‘N. Blanchan’ Birds Every Child should Know xvii. 261 Big, pearly-gray birds..with black-crowned heads..the night herons so harmonise with the twilight as to seem a part of it.
2003 Time Out (Nexis) 26 Nov. 48 The creamy black sky appears denser than the pearly grey sea.
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