steel grey

noun

1. a dark grey colour, usually slightly purple
2. (as adjective)a steel-grey suit

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Examples from the Web for steel grey

Historical Examples

In colour the Skye should be a steel-grey or blue, silver-grey, or fawn.
Sporting Dogs
Frank Townend Barton
Edith's steel-grey eyes were fixed on him, coldly compelling.
Orientations
William Somerset Maugham
It is obtained as a steel-grey crystalline powder by igniting the oxide or any ferric salt containing a volatile acid.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 14, Slice 7
Various
Instead, of a sharp skinny ear, and a steel-grey eye—one or other of which she suspects to be covering the keyhole.
Gwen Wynn
Mayne Reid
The night was dark, shreds of cloud raced across a steel-grey sky, while a greenish patch showed the position of the moon.
Two Years with the Natives in the Western Pacific
Felix Speiser

steel grey

Examples from the Web for steel grey

Historical Examples

In colour the Skye should be a steel-grey or blue, silver-grey, or fawn.

Edith's steel-grey eyes were fixed on him, coldly compelling.

It is obtained as a steel-grey crystalline powder by igniting the oxide or any ferric salt containing a volatile acid.

Instead, of a sharp skinny ear, and a steel-grey eye—one or other of which she suspects to be covering the keyhole.

The night was dark, shreds of cloud raced across a steel-grey sky, while a greenish patch showed the position of the moon.