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pearl grey

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noun

    1. a light bluish-grey colour

    2. ( as adjective )

      pearl-grey shoes

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Colors: pebbled leather is black, blue, blush, burgundy, ecru, jade, navy/black, olive, pearl grey, pistachio, red, soft rose, or stone; shimmer leather is champagne.

From Slate Sep. 17, 2018

Further south, in Oslo, night is merely an afterthought in the pearl grey lingering of the day.

From Salon Jul. 27, 2011

In a pearl grey, upholstered, perfumed room in Paris' Avenue Montaigne, the buyers broke into a storm of bravos.

From Time Magazine Archive

President of the Republic Vincent Auriol sat pleasantly and peacefully in his box, a study in pearl grey.

From Time Magazine Archive

Genevieve was dressed in pearl grey, with an elegance a little too fashionable to please Andrews.

From Three Soldiers by Dos Passos, John

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