Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having the gray color of a mouse, or a color somewhat similar; dark-gray with a yellowish tinge, the color of the common mouse.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective of something having a drab pale brown color resembling a mouse
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Examples
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He crashed on his face, his hat still on his head, the mouse-colored hair at the nape of his neck showing below it in an untidy curl.
Archive 2010-03-01 Peter Rozovsky 2010
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The gold dragon grumbled, opened one golden eye, stared at the old man (seeing only a mouse-colored blur), and calmly shut his eye again.
Finnegan teoriza la practica de cuerdas Carlos G.Tonda 2010
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Booted feet stuck out from beneath long, mouse-colored robes.
Finnegan teoriza la practica de cuerdas Carlos G.Tonda 2010
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It looks like a large floppy mouse-colored version of a certain popular kind of fuzzy bathroom slipper.
Listening to presidential talk — is Barack Obama what we want to hear now? Ann Althouse 2008
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Her hair was a mouse-colored bun, with wisps and unruly curls always escaping it; her eyes were half-hidden behind coke-bottle-glass spectacles.
Orphans of Chaos 2005
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If he were a woman you'd say his hair was mouse-colored, but you don't hear that with guys.
The Burglar On The Prowl Block, Lawrence 2004
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His mouse-colored hair, thinning slightly on top and parted on the right, was boring.
SAFE HOUSE MEG CABOT 2003
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His mouse-colored hair, thinning slightly on top and parted on the right, was boring.
SAFE HOUSE MEG CABOT 2003
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She then went to look into her mouse-trap, where she found six mice, all alive, and ordered Cinderella to lift up a little the trapdoor, when, giving each mouse, as it went out, a little tap with her wand, the mouse was that moment turned into a fine horse, which altogether made a very fine set of six horses of a beautiful mouse-colored dapple-gray.
The Blue Fairy Book 2003
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He was frightening, but his companion scared her even more-a short dumpy woman with mouse-colored hair wearing a rumpled lab coat, sneakers, and jeans.
Beyond World's End Lackey, Mercedes 2001
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