MOUSE-COLORED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does mouse-colored mean? 

• MOUSE-COLORED (adjective)
  The adjective MOUSE-COLORED has 1 sense:

1. of something having a drab pale brown color resembling a mouse

  Familiarity information: MOUSE-COLORED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MOUSE-COLORED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Of something having a drab pale brown color resembling a mouse

Synonyms:

mouse-colored; mouselike; mousey; mousy

Context example:

mouse-colored hair

Similar:

chromatic (being or having or characterized by hue)

 Context examples 

Meek, mouse-colored donkeys, laden with panniers of freshly cut grass passed by, with a pretty girl in a capaline sitting between the green piles, or an old woman spinning with a distaff as she went.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)