IRON-GREY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does iron-grey mean? 

• IRON-GREY (noun)
  The noun IRON-GREY has 1 sense:

1. the color of freshly broken cast iron

  Familiarity information: IRON-GREY used as a noun is very rare.

• IRON-GREY (adjective)
  The adjective IRON-GREY has 1 sense:

1. of the grey color of iron

  Familiarity information: IRON-GREY used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• IRON-GREY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The color of freshly broken cast iron

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

iron-gray; iron-grey

Hypernyms ("iron-grey" is a kind of...):

gray; grayness; grey; greyness (a neutral achromatic color midway between white and black)

Derivation:

iron-grey (of the grey color of iron)

• IRON-GREY (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Of the grey color of iron

Synonyms:

iron-gray; iron-grey

Similar:

achromatic; neutral (having no hue)

Derivation:

iron-grey (the color of freshly broken cast iron)

 Context examples 

He is a man of fifty, strong, active, with iron-grey hair, great bunched black eyebrows, the step of a deer and the air of an emperor—a fierce, masterful man, with a red-hot spirit behind his parchment face.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

There lay the Count, but looking as if his youth had been half renewed, for the white hair and moustache were changed to dark iron-grey; the cheeks were fuller, and the white skin seemed ruby-red underneath; the mouth was redder than ever, for on the lips were gouts of fresh blood, which trickled from the corners of the mouth and ran over the chin and neck.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

As he stood, looking at his cap for a little while before beginning to speak, I could not help observing what power and force of character his sinewy hand expressed, and what a good and trusty companion it was to his honest brow and iron-grey hair.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)