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ASH-GREY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does ash-grey mean?
• ASH-GREY (adjective)
The adjective ASH-GREY has 1 sense:
1. of a light grey
Familiarity information: ASH-GREY used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Of a light grey
Synonyms:
Similar:
achromatic; neutral (having no hue)
Context examples
Occasionally a line of grey cars crawls along an invisible track, gives out a ghastly creak and comes to rest, and immediately the ash-grey men swarm up with leaden spades and stir up an impenetrable cloud which screens their obscure operations from your sight.
(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)
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