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STEEL GREY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does steel grey mean?
• STEEL GREY (noun)
The noun STEEL GREY has 1 sense:
1. slightly purplish or bluish dark grey
Familiarity information: STEEL GREY used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Slightly purplish or bluish dark grey
Classified under:
Nouns denoting substances
Synonyms:
Davy's gray; Davy's grey; iron blue; steel gray; steel grey
Hypernyms ("steel grey" is a kind of...):
gray; grayness; grey; greyness (a neutral achromatic color midway between white and black)
Context examples
The terror of his face lay in his eyes, however, steel grey, and glistening coldly with a malignant, inexorable cruelty in their depths.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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