Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A very pale violet color. A color-disk composed of one third artificial ultramarine and two thirds white might be called a lilacgray.
Etymologies
Sorry, no etymologies found.
Support
Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word lilac-gray.
Examples
-
A beautiful Choice proof with lovely golden-brown, jade-green, honey-gold, and lilac-gray toning.
Gold Hot in Heritage’s May 2008 Long Beach $26.5 Million Auction : Coin Collecting News 2008
-
The obverse (front) has lilac-gray toning and the reverse (back) has much blackish-gray color along with considerable brownish-russet and some lilac tones.
-
A beautiful Choice proof with lovely golden-brown, jade-green, honey-gold, and lilac-gray toning.
Gold Hot in Heritage’s May 2008 Long Beach $26.5 Million Auction : Coin Collecting News 2008
-
No Foke could travel in the Cloudriver for very long: Vision was an empty lilac-gray, and one had to gauge the fallpath by feel alone.
In Other Worlds Attanasio, A. A. 1984
-
Dozens of waves flashed and crashed their way up the beach; but now they trailed an iridescent network of foam over the lilac-gray sand.
Angel Island Inez Haynes Gillmore 1921
-
To picnic in the anemone-meadows, dim blue and lilac-gray, that lie in the lowlands beyond the South Sea Garden!
The Voyages of Dr. Dolittle Hugh Lofting 1916
-
It disappeared in the blue distance, where from its waters rose lilac-gray clouds to the sky; these were edged with down, now yellow, again green as the sea, or again slate-colored, casting those gloomy shadows that oppress soul and mind.
Twenty-six and One and Other Stories Maksim Gorky 1902
-
And so it wound away like a vast green ribbon across the lilac-gray sage-brush and the yellow, vanishing plains.
Lin McLean Owen Wister 1899
-
The ground color is white, either pure or creamy, sparingly mottled with rich madder-brown and lilac-gray, the spots being thicker and larger on the larger end.
Our Bird Comrades 1896
-
The sun lay hot on the steep banks, where not a leaf of the birch-trees stirred now, and on the lichened rocks, and on the long strand of lilac-gray pebbles; altogether
Prince Fortunatus William Black 1869
Comments
Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.