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SLATE-GREY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does slate-grey mean?
• SLATE-GREY (adjective)
The adjective SLATE-GREY has 1 sense:
1. of the color of slate or granite
Familiarity information: SLATE-GREY used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Of the color of slate or granite
Synonyms:
slate-gray; slate-grey; slatey; slaty; slaty-gray; slaty-grey; stone-gray; stone-grey
Context example:
the slaty sky of dawn
Similar:
achromatic; neutral (having no hue)
Context examples
He had picked from a drawer a little tarnished cylinder, and, undoing the tape, he handed me a short note scrawled upon a half-sheet of slate-grey paper.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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