Definitions
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- adjective of grey tinged with brown
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Examples
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And it was, it was that oddly purply brown-grey that you get from dried grapevine twined into wreaths.
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And it was, it was that oddly purply brown-grey that you get from dried grapevine twined into wreaths.
mrissa: Why nobody puts me in charge of marketing children's clothes. mrissa 2010
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Nothing, for instance, was growing — it was an expanse of brown-grey earth, craggy as an acne scar, baked and sun-dried and barren.
That Pesky Question of Foreign Domination | ATTACKERMAN 2009
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There was a rare, thunderous snowstorm here before Christmas and the sidewalks are still piled with brown-grey slush, black ice.
blog: January 2009 2009
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The pictures taken on the ground show an apparently empty brown-grey, solid building, but nothing that seems to indicate it is being used for nuclear purposes.
the cia video 2008
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If she peered from the verandah into the brown-grey water, she thought she saw her three friends floating immaterially below, trussed in mossy ferns.
An Atlas of Impossible Longing Anuradha Roy 2008
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If she peered from the verandah into the brown-grey water, she thought she saw her three friends floating immaterially below, trussed in mossy ferns.
An Atlas of Impossible Longing Anuradha Roy 2008
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The common tern chicks are nearly as big as their parents - though they still beg for wriggling silver fish - and have exchanged their speckled down for mottled brown-grey feathers and rakish charcoal caps above white foreheads.
High summer Carla 2008
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If she peered from the verandah into the brown-grey water, she thought she saw her three friends floating immaterially below, trussed in mossy ferns.
An Atlas of Impossible Longing Anuradha Roy 2008
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The common tern chicks are nearly as big as their parents - though they still beg for wriggling silver fish - and have exchanged their speckled down for mottled brown-grey feathers and rakish charcoal caps above white foreheads.
Archive 2008-08-01 Carla 2008
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