slate-colouredslate-coloredadj.
Of the colour of slate, usually bluish-grey.
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perse-blue1414
waterisha1425
blunket1488
bluish-grey1578
blue-grey1590
water1592
slate-grey1794
slate-coloured1801
griseous1819
neutral1821
slaty1822
schistous1858
slatish1860
powder-blue-grey1952
1801 G. Shaw Gen. Zool. II. ii. 319 Slate-coloured Antelope.
1811 G. Shaw Gen. Zool. VIII. i. 261 Slate-coloured Creeper.
1812 A. Wilson Amer. Ornithol. VI. 13 Slate-colored Hawk, Falco Pennsylvanicus.
1836 C. Dickens Sketches by Boz 1st Ser. I. 343 Grandmamma in a high cap and slate-coloured silk gown.
1871 C. Darwin Descent of Man (1890) ii. xvi. 481 Young swans are slate-coloured.
1874 E. Coues Birds Northwest 162 Passerella Townsendii,..Slate-coloured Sparrow.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online June 2019).
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