pepper-and-salt

[ pep-er-uhn-sawlt ]

adjective

1. composed of a fine mixture of black with white:

   pepper-and-salt hair.

noun

1. an apparel fabric having a pepper-and-salt effect.
2. harbinger-of-spring ( def ).

pepper-and-salt

adjective

1. (of cloth) marked with a fine mixture of black and white
2. (of hair) streaked with grey

Word History and Origins

Origin of pepper-and-salt¹

First recorded in 1765–75

Example Sentences

It was played by particular request of one of the pepper-and-salt gentry.

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It was a sort of a pepper-and-salt color with a pencil or streak of black hair extending from the back of the ears.

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I have bought myself a frightful pepper-and-salt coloured dress, and a black straw hat.

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He was a middle-aged man in pepper-and-salt tweeds, and his manner was brusque and aggressive.

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The pepper-and-salt tweeds bowed meekly before Roma's flashing eyes.

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