单词 | slaty-grey |
释义 | > as lemmasslaty-grey a. With names of colours, as slaty-black, slaty-blue, slaty-green, slaty-grey. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > colour > named colours > blue or blueness > [adjective] > greyish blue perse-blue1414 plunket1415 persec1425 grey-blue1741 iron blue?1758 smoke-blue1807 gunpowder1817 slaty-blue1854 Silurian1892 powder-blue-grey1952 1817 W. Scott Rob Roy III. iii. 82 A broken track along the precipitous face of a slaty grey rock. 1826 J. F. Stephens Shaw's Gen. Zool. XIII. ii. 164 Slaty-black Graucalus with the head and neck..black. 1854 L. A. Meall Moubray's Treat. Poultry 288 Jacinth,..slaty-blue, and pied on back and wings with white. 1859 C. Darwin Origin of Species i. 25 The rock-pigeon is of a slaty-blue, and has a white rump. 1874 T. Hardy Far from Madding Crowd I. v. 55 A coat..approximating in colour to white and slaty grey. 1975 H. R. F. Keating Remarkable Case i. 1 The slaty-blue eyes in his thin pale face. < as lemmas |
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