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DARK-GREY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does dark-grey mean?
• DARK-GREY (adjective)
The adjective DARK-GREY has 1 sense:
Familiarity information: DARK-GREY used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Of a dark shade of grey
Synonyms:
dark-gray; dark-grey; oxford-gray; oxford-grey
Similar:
achromatic; neutral (having no hue)
Context examples
You sit at home, said the cat, in your dark-grey fur coat and long tail, and are filled with fancies, that’s because you do not go out in the daytime.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
He was well but quietly dressed in a dark-grey suit, and carried a brown wide-awake in his hand.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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