Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The color of ashes; a clear, neutral gray.
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Examples
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Roofs and façades look as if they had been long exposed to coal-smoke, although probably no one in Grande Anse ever saw coal; and the pavements of pebbles and cement are of a deep ash-color, full of micaceous scintillation, and so hard as to feel disagreeable even to feet protected by good thick shoes.
Two Years in the French West Indies Lafcadio Hearn 1877
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"In her youth Aunt Margaret was a decided beauty, with luxuriant hair of the real golden shade, neither flaxen, ash-color, nor red.
The Story of a Summer Or, Journal Leaves from Chappaqua Cecilia Pauline Cleveland
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