Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of the color of clay.
Etymologies
Sorry, no etymologies found.
Support
Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word clay-colored.
Examples
-
Pollution smudged the horizon; the train station lay ragged and busy beneath him; kids sold sesame buns between cars; street sweepers whisked the curbs; and clay-colored mosques stood in the distance beyond the cemeteries in a district called the City of the Dead.
LA Times Series on Life in Cairo, #3: Cairo Mini-Buses zhukora1 2008
-
If you experience sweating, chills, fever, yellow skin, or clay-colored bowel movements, see your caregiver immediately.
Pregnancy, Childbirth, and the Newborn Penny Simkin 2010
-
If you experience sweating, chills, fever, yellow skin, or clay-colored bowel movements, see your caregiver immediately.
Pregnancy, Childbirth, and the Newborn Penny Simkin 2010
-
I gazed blankly out of the window, trying to concentrate on the blue sky, clay-colored earth, and green grass, which in Minnesota would already be covered by ice and snow.
Jewish Women in the Military - Navy - Bernice Sains Freid 2010
-
The third city, Khiva, is a perfectly-preserved caravan town in the middle of a dusty nowhere, with clay-colored ramparts and aged street sweepers who roam the city at dawn.
-
Patrick Barta for The Wall Street Journal Khiva, the smallest Silk Road city, feels something like a stage set: a perfectly-preserved caravan town in the middle of nowhere, with clay-colored ramparts, ancient minarets and street sweepers who roam the city at dawn in dark sheep's-hair hats.
Exploring Uzbekistan 2009
-
The third city, Khiva, is a perfectly-preserved caravan town in the middle of a dusty nowhere, with clay-colored ramparts.
-
You see it early-first in the anxious pose and clay-colored reworking of the central woman's odd face in "Bathers With a Turtle" (1908).
-
I knew what would happen--they'd get it on damp shoes and I'd be left with a clay-colored residue everywhere.
Archive 2007-02-01 Will 2007
-
I knew what would happen--they'd get it on damp shoes and I'd be left with a clay-colored residue everywhere.
DesignerBlog Will 2007
Comments
Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.