dove color

American  

[duhv] / dʌv /

noun

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

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Other Word Forms

• dove-colored adjective

Etymology

Origin of dove color

First recorded in 1590–1600

Example Sentences

Timidly she spread out fanwise the dove color of her sober costume.

From Bransford of Rainbow Range Originally Published under the title of Bransford in Arcadia, or, The Little Eohippus by Rhodes, Eugene Manlove

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 King, Basil

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 Duchochois, Peter C.

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

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

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

From A Mountain Woman by Peattie, Elia Wilkinson