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SILVER-GREY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does silver-grey mean?
• SILVER-GREY (adjective)
The adjective SILVER-GREY has 1 sense:
1. of grey resembling silver
Familiarity information: SILVER-GREY used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Of grey resembling silver
Synonyms:
silver-gray; silver-grey; silvery-gray; silvery-grey
Similar:
achromatic; neutral (having no hue)
Context examples
This I quickly was: my best dress (the silver-grey one, purchased for Miss Temple's wedding, and never worn since) was soon put on; my hair was soon smoothed; my sole ornament, the pearl brooch, soon assumed.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
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