pearl grey


noun
    • a light bluish-grey colour

    • (as adjective): pearl-grey shoes

Words Nearby pearl grey

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How to use pearl grey in a sentence

  • The girl was dressed in a pearl grey and pink sports coat, with a large black hat, and carried a silver chain handbag.

    The Doctor of Pimlico | William Le Queux
  • He wore a high crowned, pearl grey fedora, set squarely on his head and his fleecy coat had heavily padded shoulders.

  • The shadows lengthened across the pearl-grey water and two white clouds near the sun were turning golden.

    Summer | Edith Wharton
  • Yet when Conrad woke in his little north-looking room in the lucid pearl-grey dawn he had some bad moments.

    Joan of the Sword Hand | S(amuel) R(utherford) Crockett
  • Mademoiselle Liévenne appeared in a charming toilette of blue velvet, with a red Cashmere shawl, and a pearl-grey satin hood.

    Lola Montez | Edmund B. d'Auvergne