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Bluish-gray   /blˈuɪʃ-greɪ/   Listen
Bluish-gray

adjective
1.
Of grey tinged with blue.  Synonyms: blue-gray, blue-grey, bluish-grey.






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"Bluish-gray" Quotes from Famous Books



... above all others that gave him the look of a bird of prey was his bluish-gray eye. An eye that was never still and always shone with a glitter. The only time this strange light was not noticeable was during the moments when he drew the lids down half-way. He was in the habit of holding ...
— The Man in Gray • Thomas Dixon

... to judge his age—had one taken the trouble to try. Perhaps he was thirty-eight. He surely was not French. There was no Indian blood in him. His heavy beard was reddish, his long thick hair distinctly blond, and his eyes were a bluish-gray. ...
— Back to God's Country and Other Stories • James Oliver Curwood

... day of our visit, its pillars of pale bluish-gray limestone rose against a wintry sky, its guardian oaks were leafless, and the wind whistled over its heaps of ruin; yet its symmetry was like that of a perfect statue, wherein you do not notice the absence of color, and I felt that no sky and no season could make it more beautiful. For its builder ...
— Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Vol VIII - Italy and Greece, Part Two • Various



Words linked to "Bluish-gray" :   neutral, achromatic



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