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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

You couldn't miss tall, grey Robert Maynard Hutchins in a neat-fitting brown top coat and pearl grey Homburg.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

From Time Magazine Archive

She wore a plain pearl grey walking dress and deerstalker hat with a single quill in it.

From The Betrayal by Oppenheim, E. Phillips (Edward Phillips)

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