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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

The doors opened and Rosa Phillips entered, magnificently jewelled and dressed in a rich silk of pearl grey.

From Down the Mother Lode by Vivia Hemphill

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