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LEAD-COLOURED
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Dictionary entry overview: What does lead-coloured mean?
• LEAD-COLOURED (adjective)
The adjective LEAD-COLOURED has 1 sense:
1. having the color of lead
Familiarity information: LEAD-COLOURED used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Having the color of lead
Synonyms:
lead-colored; lead-coloured
Similar:
colored; colorful; coloured (having color or a certain color; sometimes used in combination)
Context examples
Look at those big, isolated clumps of building rising up above the slates, like brick islands in a lead-coloured sea.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
“I am not fond of professions of humility,” I returned, “or professions of anything else.” “There now!” said Uriah, looking flabby and lead-coloured in the moonlight.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
It was not long before I observed that it was the most susceptible part of her face, and that, when she turned pale, that mark altered first, and became a dull, lead-coloured streak, lengthening out to its full extent, like a mark in invisible ink brought to the fire.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
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