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SILVER GRAY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does silver gray mean?
• SILVER GRAY (noun)
The noun SILVER GRAY has 1 sense:
1. a light shade of grey
Familiarity information: SILVER GRAY used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A light shade of grey
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Synonyms:
ash gray; ash grey; silver; silver gray; silver grey
Hypernyms ("silver gray" is a kind of...):
gray; grayness; grey; greyness (a neutral achromatic color midway between white and black)
Context examples
All three wore suits of thin silver gray (their best gowns for the summer), with blush roses in hair and bosom, and all three looked just what they were, fresh-faced, happy-hearted girls, pausing a moment in their busy lives to read with wistful eyes the sweetest chapter in the romance of womanhood.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
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