Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Of the color of ashes; cinerous.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Of the color of ashes; a whitish gray or brownish gray.

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Examples

  • There were some misses, like the ash-colored diaper and J. Jill Kwanzaa jacket that opened the show ...

    Una LaMarche: Project Runway Finale Part Two Recap Una LaMarche 2010

  • The casual look she made in two days could look like a cigarette ash-colored potato sack but Gretchen makes it fun, I think, even though it comes equipped with a little vestigial tail that reconnects to the base of the spine in back.

    Una LaMarche: Project Runway Finale: Part One Recap Una LaMarche 2010

  • There were some misses, like the ash-colored diaper and J. Jill Kwanzaa jacket that opened the show ...

    Una LaMarche: Project Runway Finale Part Two Recap Una LaMarche 2010

  • The casual look she made in two days could look like a cigarette ash-colored potato sack but Gretchen makes it fun, I think, even though it comes equipped with a little vestigial tail that reconnects to the base of the spine in back.

    Una LaMarche: Project Runway Finale: Part One Recap Una LaMarche 2010

  • I kept forgetting to notice the guest speaker: a guy whose doughy flesh looked like wadded up bars of Irish Spring soap under the phosphorescent spotlight, a large lumbering man with ash-colored hair, gentle eyebrows and a bushel nose hair visible from ten yards away.

    Molecules Joe Deir 2011

  • There were some misses, like the ash-colored diaper and J. Jill Kwanzaa jacket that opened the show ...

    Una LaMarche: Project Runway Finale Part Two Recap Una LaMarche 2010

  • The N&W repair track sat on an ash-colored rise alongside the Cuyahoga River in Cleveland, Ohio.

    Summer Jobs: 'Big Iron' 2010

  • He pointed to the ash-colored plain that stretched out behind them.

    The Search For WondLa Tony DiTerlizzi 2010

  • All trails faded as the land became drier and scrubbier, eventually turning into a great and vast ash-colored wasteland.

    The Search For WondLa Tony DiTerlizzi 2010

  • The N&W repair track sat on an ash-colored rise alongside the Cuyahoga River in Cleveland, Ohio.

    Summer Jobs: 'Big Iron' 2010

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