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  • adjective of brown tinged with grey

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Examples

  • She sat - nearly collapsed - in the chair beside him, trembling fingers stealing out to stroke the surface of her skin, all folded neatly, warm and soft and mottled grey-brown.

    Thor's Day lynxreign 2009

  • Apart from a rich green of dog's mercury and wild garlic leaves crawling across muddy ground, the overall colour was like the mood – grey: grey-brown, grey-green, grey-grey.

    Country Diary: Wenlock Edge 2011

  • I could feel its gaze as I looked at the grey-brown furry glove of pink, torn flesh that had been grazing around the edge of a wood before making a fateful hop into the road.

    Country diary: Wenlock Edge 2011

  • She sat - nearly collapsed - in the chair beside him, trembling fingers stealing out to stroke the surface of her skin, all folded neatly, warm and soft and mottled grey-brown.

    Places You Haunt stringmonkey 2009

  • Lime seeds spiralled on the westerly, helicoptering out of Edge Wood overhead into a field of barley which hadn't crackled in the sun for weeks but had set instead to a grimy grey-brown sulk.

    Country diary: Wenlock Edge 2010

  • Everything seemed to be made of stone—and not the grey-brown rocks of the mountains, either, but a pale rock, almost white with streaks of warm colors in it.

    Pathfinder Orson Scott Card 2010

  • That heavy, succulent slab, it oozes juice as you cut into its grey-brown flesh – a heady indulgence, cooked to medium-rare perfection.

    Breakfast Blog: Day 4 2010

  • A flurry of grey-brown wings and the bird was gone.

    Country diary: Wenlock Edge Paul Evans 2010

  • That heavy, succulent slab, it oozes juice as you cut into its grey-brown flesh – a heady indulgence, cooked to medium-rare perfection.

    Breakfast Blog: Day 4 2010

  • That heavy, succulent slab, it oozes juice as you cut into its grey-brown flesh – a heady indulgence, cooked to medium-rare perfection.

    Breakfast Blog: Day 4 2010

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