Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A slightly dark silver-gray color.
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Examples
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Thought: all PC-style consumer electronics are the same oyster-gray color of Macintoshes.
Microserfs Coupland, Douglas 1995
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He was outfit - ted in strange matte-black garb, girdled by a wide leather cinch that seemed bound by ropes that dropped into the oyster-gray darkness beyond the building.
Second Skin Lustbader, Eric 1995
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It was hard, but did not feel to the finger like metal, wood, or glass -- though glass did seem to cover the large, dark, greenish square that dominated the center of the oyster-gray, upright cabinet.
The Guns Of The South Turtledove, Harry 1960
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The retinue of nobles behind Gurgurk ran through the whole spectrum, from a princeling who was almost oyster-gray to old Ghroghrank, the Keegarkan Ambassador, who was even blacker and more red-speckled than Gurgurk.
Uller Uprising Piper, H. Beam 1952
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The retinue of nobles behind Gurgurk ran through the whole spectrum, from a princeling who was almost oyster-gray to old Ghroghrank, the Keegarkan
Uller Uprising H. Beam Piper 1934
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a princeling who was almost oyster-gray to the Keegarkan Ambassador, who was even blacker and more red-speckled than Gurgurk.
Ullr Uprising H. Beam Piper 1934
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