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dove color

American  
[duhv] / dʌv /

noun

  1. warm gray with a slight purplish or pinkish tint.


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Etymology

Origin of dove color

First recorded in 1590–1600

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While dry the impression is of a dove color or lavender blue, which has a curious and striking effect on the greenish yellow ground of the paper produced by the saline solution.

From Photographic Reproduction Processes by Peter C. Duchochois

Even its color was elusive—a cross between brown and dove color.

From Eugene Field, a Study in Heredity and Contradictions — Volume 1 by Slason Thompson

The harbor was now as calm as a pond, except for the pink and dove color running vaporously on the back of a long swell from the south.

From The Best Short Stories of 1921 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story by Edward J. (Edward Joseph Harrington) O'Brien

In her full panoply of plum or dove color she suggested one of those knights eternally in armor who decorate baronial halls.

From The Letter of the Contract by Basil King

It was a pretty hand, delicately gloved in dove color.

From A Mountain Woman by Elia Wilkinson Peattie

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