pearl grey

noun

1. a light bluish-grey colour
2. (as adjective)pearl-grey shoes

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Examples from the Web for pearl grey

Historical Examples

In this second tokonoma was a pearl-grey vase, and that was all.
From Sea to Sea
Rudyard Kipling
Corselet, pearl-grey, with five rows of fine black dots, which are the roots of stiff bristles pointing backwards.
Bramble-bees and Others
J. Henri Fabre
Behind him, on the back of the chair from which he had risen, hung his elegant Parisian overcoat, with a pearl-grey silk lining.
Nostromo: A Tale of the Seaboard
Joseph Conrad
But the sun shone bright, and from a poplar softly warbled a rock-bunting—with pearl-grey head, triple banded.
Unexplored Spain
Abel Chapman
The scale of colours of this strange artist consists of blue, lemon-yellow, pearl-grey, black and white.
The Letters of a Post-Impressionist
Vincent Van Gogh

pearl grey

Examples from the Web for pearl grey

Historical Examples

In this second tokonoma was a pearl-grey vase, and that was all.

Corselet, pearl-grey, with five rows of fine black dots, which are the roots of stiff bristles pointing backwards.

Behind him, on the back of the chair from which he had risen, hung his elegant Parisian overcoat, with a pearl-grey silk lining.

But the sun shone bright, and from a poplar softly warbled a rock-bunting—with pearl-grey head, triple banded.

The scale of colours of this strange artist consists of blue, lemon-yellow, pearl-grey, black and white.