Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Dull-blue with a grayish tinge; schistaceous.
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Examples
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Half his head blown across the tweed seat covers, the windshield, the back window, the side window, even the slate-blue console.
Mercy Kill Lori Armstrong 2011
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For his own wedding at age 50, the literary circle's once-reigning most eligible bachelor gave his groomsmen slate-blue Hermès ties, which they wore at the wedding.
Groomsmen Gifts: What Gives? Steve Garbarino 2011
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Half his head blown across the tweed seat covers, the windshield, the back window, the side window, even the slate-blue console.
Mercy Kill Lori Armstrong 2011
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With pedestals blending into the slate-blue shades of the walls, the artworks appear to float in a timeless space, enhancing the sense that every piece is but a fragment from a rich past.
A Return to Earlier Ideals Lee Lawrence 2011
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Half his head blown across the tweed seat covers, the windshield, the back window, the side window, even the slate-blue console.
Mercy Kill Lori Armstrong 2011
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An Asian telephone bidder paid Sotheby's $11.5 million for Mr. Richter's creamy 1990 "Abstract Picture" on Tuesday; the following night, a Russian-speaking telephone bidder paid Christie's $5.1 million for a smaller, slate-blue "Abstract Picture" the artist created that same year.
London's Hot Winter 2011
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His slate-blue eyes have the unsettling ability to drill down when they lock on you.
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Found in a used-book store last night: a paperback copy of Madeleine L'Engle's A Color From Space, published by Scholastic as a sequel/companion to A Wrinkle In Time -- same slate-blue colour as the Scholastic edition of AWIT and the graphics on the cover were similar.
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His head was fully bandaged but his color was back, his face looking healthy, his slate-blue eyes full of life.
The Thieves of Darkness Richard Doetsch 2010
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She did like the diamond Stephen Russell pins that new mom Amy Poehler used to jazz up her tank-strap slate-blue Max Azria gown and the floral Lorraine Schwartz earrings on Jane Krakowski.
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