ash-colour

It is covered with very small scales, and is generally of ash-colour, varied and clouded on the back, &c.

The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 392, October 3, 1829 Various

It is about the size of a {253} rat, and of a deep ash-colour.

History of Louisisana Or of the Western Parts of Virginia and Carolina: Containing -1775 Le Page du Pratz

When we passed under them we noticed how the light tinged the foliage that was nearest with a greenish ash-colour, almost like the undersides of aspen-leaves.

A Child's Book of Saints William Canton 1909

'Matabeles -- an _impi_!' said the Kaffir Dicky, his dusky skin looking an unwholesome ash-colour with terror.

Chatterbox, 1906 Various 1873

Lane could see how all round had been blackened, or charred into a greyish ash-colour, save in two places, where broad blackish bands reached from a chasm near the top of the crater, right down the sides, till they were hidden by the tall trees still standing, and apparently spreading from the gentle eminence upon which he knelt for about a mile.

Fire Island Being the Adventures of Uncertain Naturalists in an Unknown Track George Manville Fenn 1870

The various browns and yellows and pale ash-colour that occur in fallen leaves are all reproduced in its plumage, so that when according to its habit it rests upon the ground under trees, it is almost impossible to detect it.

Contributions to the Theory of Natural Selection A Series of Essays Alfred Russel Wallace 1868

"Perse, Dame, four marks the piece," said he, holding up a very pale blue; "ash-colour, thirty shillings; apple-bloom, forty shillings."

The White Lady of Hazelwood A Tale of the Fourteenth Century Emily Sarah Holt 1864

To right and left, the view is bounded by the enclosing rocks; but, on the side of the desert, immense undulations of a yellowish ash-colour rise, one above and one beyond the other, like the lines of a sea-coast; while, far off, beyond the sands, the mountains of the Libyan range form

Tentation de saint Antoine. English Gustave Flaubert 1850

The juice, which is itself at first of a pale ash-colour, gushes out in great streams, quite white with foam, and passes through a wooden gutter into the boiling-house, where it is received into the siphon, or "cock-copper," where fire is applied to it, and it is slaked with lime, in order to make it granulate.

Journal of a Residence among the Negroes in the West Indies Matthew Gregory 1845

Her naturally elegant complexion was changed to almost an ash-colour.

Vicissitudes in Genteel Life 1794