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BLUE-GREY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does blue-grey mean?
• BLUE-GREY (adjective)
The adjective BLUE-GREY has 1 sense:
1. of grey tinged with blue
Familiarity information: BLUE-GREY used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Of grey tinged with blue
Synonyms:
blue-gray; blue-grey; bluish-gray; bluish-grey
Similar:
achromatic; neutral (having no hue)
Context examples
Across the centre of it was lying a little cylinder of blue-grey paper.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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