IRON-GRAY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does iron-gray mean? 

• IRON-GRAY (noun)
  The noun IRON-GRAY has 1 sense:

1. the color of freshly broken cast iron

  Familiarity information: IRON-GRAY used as a noun is very rare.

• IRON-GRAY (adjective)
  The adjective IRON-GRAY has 1 sense:

1. of the grey color of iron

  Familiarity information: IRON-GRAY used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• IRON-GRAY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The color of freshly broken cast iron

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

iron-gray; iron-grey

Hypernyms ("iron-gray" is a kind of...):

gray; grayness; grey; greyness (a neutral achromatic color midway between white and black)

Derivation:

iron-gray (of the grey color of iron)

• IRON-GRAY (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Of the grey color of iron

Synonyms:

iron-gray; iron-grey

Similar:

achromatic; neutral (having no hue)

Derivation:

iron-gray (the color of freshly broken cast iron)

 Context examples 

He made me observe, that among the Houyhnhnms, the white, the sorrel, and the iron-gray, were not so exactly shaped as the bay, the dapple-gray, and the black; nor born with equal talents of mind, or a capacity to improve them; and therefore continued always in the condition of servants, without ever aspiring to match out of their own race, which in that country would be reckoned monstrous and unnatural.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)