Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Salt-and-pepper.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of a color consisting either of a light ground (as white, drab, gray, etc.) dotted or speckled finely with a dark color, as black or dark gray, or of black or dark gray thickly and evenly speckled with white or light gray: said of a fabric or a garment.
- noun The plant harbinger-of-spring: so named from the mixture of white petals and dark stamens in its umbels.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a fabric woven with flecks of light and dark
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Examples
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Hes a fit, camera-friendly man in his mid-40s with bright blue eyes, neatly trimmed pepper-and-salt hair and a gentle demeanor.
The Foie Gras Wars Mark Caro 2009
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Hes a fit, camera-friendly man in his mid-40s with bright blue eyes, neatly trimmed pepper-and-salt hair and a gentle demeanor.
The Foie Gras Wars Mark Caro 2009
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There was a man on board this boat, with a light fresh-coloured face, and a pepper-and-salt suit of clothes, who was the most inquisitive fellow that can possibly be imagined.
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Monsieur Guillaume wore loose black velvet breeches, pepper-and-salt stockings, and square toed shoes with silver buckles.
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He begins to pull at his dark pepper-and-salt fringe, or at least he did until he recently had it shampooed and trimmed.
Archive 2007-06-01 2007
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Monsieur Guillaume wore loose black velvet breeches, pepper-and-salt stockings, and square toed shoes with silver buckles.
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He is dressed in a coarse pepper-and-salt suit excessively patched and darned
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He begins to pull at his dark pepper-and-salt fringe, or at least he did until he recently had it shampooed and trimmed.
Scots wa hae* 2007
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And though he wore corduroys at work, and a slop-made pepper-and-salt suit on Sundays, strangers would turn round to look after him on the road.
Amy Foster 2006
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There was a vociferous red-faced polyglot personal conductor in a pepper-and-salt suit, very long in the arms and legs and very active.
Twelve Stories and a Dream, by H. G. Wells Herbert George 2006
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