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noun

British an angler's name for a greyish caddis fly, Odontocerum albicorne, that frequents running water, in which its larvae make cases from grains of sand

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How to use grey sedge in a sentence

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Artists Under Hitler successfully manages to add some grey to the generally black-and-white conversation about Nazis and art.
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We sat in rows of grey steel fold out chairs that faced a model of the compound in Abbottabad.
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Here, only the twisting grey concrete under his tires disturbed the desolate wild.
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Why not have sought out the pure white lime-rocks of the flat country, or the grey granite of the hills?
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 372, October 1846|Various
The handkerchief glimmered on the counter, more white than anything else in that grey dusk.
Hilda Lessways|Arnold Bennett
The Spanish men-of-war, which were always painted white, had their colour changed to dark grey like the American ships.
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It seemed; it truly seemed as if the tide of blue, grey, scarlet specks was submerging the enemy's strongholds.
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She turned her gaze away from the mirror, and saw Sarah's grey head inadvertently nodding, as it always nodded.
Hilda Lessways|Arnold Bennett