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Meanings of blue-grey in English

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Of grey tinged with blue.

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Examples for "blue-gray"
Examples for "blue-gray"
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Out my window, the water glistened blue-gray in the early morning sun.
Bones to Ashes
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They looked once into his shining blue-gray eyes and became his followers.
The Man in Gray: A Romance of North and South
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She turned on him quickly, and the blue-gray eyes were suspiciously bright.
The Grafters
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Her long lashes uplifted, the blue-gray eyes looking directly into my own.
Love under Fire
5
For a moment gold dress and dark blue-gray uniform confronted each other.
The Street of Seven Stars
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A thin, bluish-grey arc of the giant planet overarched its western edge.
A Honeymoon in Space
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Its last rays shone on us, and then came a bluish-grey twilight.
Wonderful Balloon Ascents; Or, The Conquest of the Skies / A His...
3
Across the bamboos, Antony sees a forest of columns of a bluish-grey colour.
The Temptation of St. Antony; Or, A Revelation of the Soul
4
I thought I saw a cat with bluish-grey fur.
Depths
5
The bluish-grey leaden tone comes from your shop.
A Word, Only a Word — Volume 03
1
He has large, bluish-gray eyes, and is tall and elegant in manner.
Maria Mitchell: Life, Letters, and Journals
2
The three-story, bluish-gray house had a slate roof and bright white shutters.
Spells
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Beverly looks at him gratefully and exhales a cloud of bluish-gray smoke.
IT
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Cooked potatoes sometimes develop a large internal region of bluish-gray discoloration.
On food and cooking: the science and lore of the kitchen
5
There was another of red with a bluish-gray that was more conventionally used.
American Indian Stories
Usage of blue-grey in English
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His retinal implants were the same colour as the original irises: blue-grey.
The Reality Dysfunction
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He reached into his pocket and took out a rough blue-grey stone.
Book of lost threads
3
Only the hard blue-grey eyes gave a hint of the man within.
Heart of oak
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A lovely creature, dark, with deep, dreamy, vague blue-grey eyes-anda face!
The Man Who Lost Himself
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The shadows of the trees were faint blue-grey in the ruddy yellow gravel.
Three Soldiers
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The blue-grey light of morning showed under the edge of the closed window-blind.
When Valmond Came to Pontiac: The Story of a Lost Napoleon. Volu...
7
The sky was clear, the empty blue-grey of an early dawn.
The Long Earth
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From the first the blue-grey notepaper had had a familiar look.
The Little Nugget
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The blue-grey compartment was the largest he'd ever seen in a warship before.
The Reality Dysfunction
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It was sunset, but the sky was full of blue-grey colour.
A Tramp's Sketches
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A tall man in a blue-grey bedgown was regarding him with deep disfavor.
The Works of Rudyard Kipling: One Volume Edition
12
Beneath his feet the blue-grey waters of the Ancy churned past.
Stonewielder
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And from the start Liverpool tore into those deep blue-grey shirts.
The Guardian
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Across the centre of it was lying a little cylinder of blue-grey paper.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and The Memoirs of Sherlock Ho...
15
There was cloud coming in now, blue-grey, from the sea.
Relentless Pursuit
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Yes, there it was again, a blue-grey haze towards Glenfield.
The Quiet Earth
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