Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A dark somewhat brownish-gray color.

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  • adjective of the color of slate or granite

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Examples

  • I watched my step as I crossed the space from gently bobbing shuttle to stone-gray quay.

    Analog Science Fiction and Fact 2004

  • The view from the plane is breathtaking: deep-blue lakes, dark-green fields, dun-colored deserts, stone-gray mountains, and the entire countryside peppered with whitewashed, red-roofed houses.

    Yitzhak Rabin - Nobel Lecture 1999

  • "Especially when one has not delivered?" she asked mildly, the stone-gray eyes raking over me.

    The Death of Chaos Modesitt, L. E. 1995

  • It was not green or bright but stone-gray and dreary.

    Witches' Brew Brooks, Terry, 1944- 1995

  • Never were her stone-gray eyes as wide or as hot with rage.

    Darkest Hour V. C. Andrews 1993

  • Never were her stone-gray eyes as wide or as hot with rage.

    Darkest Hour V. C. Andrews 1993

  • Never were her stone-gray eyes as wide or as hot with rage.

    Darkest Hour V. C. Andrews 1993

  • Never were her stone-gray eyes as wide or as hot with rage.

    Darkest Hour V. C. Andrews 1993

  • And in conversation he had the habit of listening with eyes shaded by the lids, then suddenly shooting forth at the speaker a gleam from the stone-gray pupil which seemed to penetrate his innermost mind.

    Four Years in Rebel Capitals An Inside View of Life in the Southern Confederacy from Birth to Death T. C. DeLeon

  • As you open a window and stare at a stone-gray sky,

    American Poetry, 1922 A Miscellany Various

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