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Steel gray

noun

Slightly purplish or bluish dark grey. Synonyms: Davy's gray, Davy's grey, iron blue, steel grey.

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"Steel gray" Quotes from Famous Books

... come to the year 1879) sketched the most faithful portrait of him to whom a whole generation was soon to give the respectful title of "the Marshal of Letters": "Edmond de Goncourt looks about fifty. His hair is gray, a light steel gray; his air is distinguished and genial; he has a tall, straight figure, and the sharp nose of the sporting dog, like a country gentleman keen for the chase, and, on his pale and energetic face, a smile of perpetual sadness, a glance that sometimes ...

— Rene Mauperin • Edmond de Goncourt and Jules de Goncourt

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... the fireplace, and the breakfast-table was set in front of it. Mrs. Gray, in an attractive mauve house-gown, came in from the kitchen. She was a tall woman, with steel gray eyes, with pebblings of green—the eyes of courage and high resolve. Her features were classical in their regularity, and reminded Pearl of the faces in her history reproduced from the Greek coins, lacking only the laurel wreath. Her hair was beginning to turn gray, and showed ...

— Purple Springs • Nellie L. McClung

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Words linked to "Steel gray" : steel grey, greyness, grayness, gray, iron blue, grey