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  • adjective of a very dark grey

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Examples

  • The Swansea unit is a stark, charcoal-grey box broken up by vividly coloured banquettes.

    Swansea's top 10 budget eats 2011

  • Their charcoal-grey skin was peeling from their faces, their arms, their necks, he said.

    Hiroshima Expresses Anger, Fear Over Nuclear Plant Crisis 2011

  • Their charcoal-grey skin was peeling from their faces, their arms, their necks, he said.

    Hiroshima Expresses Anger, Fear Over Nuclear Plant Crisis 2011

  • The gleaming white collar encircling his neck stood out in sharp contrast to both his skin colour and his well-tailored charcoal-grey suit.

    The Priest Gerard O’Donovan 2011

  • “This is only their pied-à-terre, you understand,” Martinez whispered as they were ushered into a finely appointed sitting room by a middle-aged man in a charcoal-grey business suit—the uniform, Mulcahy assumed, of the modern-day butler.

    The Priest Gerard O’Donovan 2011

  • He still looked like his normal superhumanly hot self, in a fitted charcoal-grey pea coat and matching wool cap.

    mostly good girls Leila Sales 2010

  • He was a seedy little man, who always wore the same dusty charcoal-grey suit and a brown trilby far too jaunty for a man his age.

    The Devil's Bedpost 2010

  • He still looked like his normal superhumanly hot self, in a fitted charcoal-grey pea coat and matching wool cap.

    mostly good girls Leila Sales 2010

  • He still looked like his normal superhumanly hot self, in a fitted charcoal-grey pea coat and matching wool cap.

    mostly good girls Leila Sales 2010

  • Billy sat up and placed his elbows onto his knees, looking over at Mr. Harding through sad, oval-shaped charcoal-grey eyes.

    Grant Whitney Harvey: Moonshadows: Part 1 2009

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