Definitions
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- adjective of grey tinged with yellow
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Examples
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He took up the twig and twirled it, admiring the yellowish-grey velvet of its budding catkins.
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Thus she reflected as she watched the landscape slip past: yellowish-grey flats, or stone-strewn paddocks tufted with clumps of brown grass, all of which she had seen too often before to pay much heed to them.
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In their faces Wexford had seen that same dusty parched look, yellowish-grey drawn features, blue eyes bleached a haggard grey.
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But beyond that again there was something he had never seen the like of - a great yellowish-grey thing, flat as a calm sea, and stretching for miles.
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But beyond that again there was something he had never seen the like of - a great yellowish-grey thing, flat as a calm sea, and stretching for miles.
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This would be the treatment and colouring for greyish-brown or yellowish-grey smooth, dry-looking rocks, sandstones, etc.; and by a little alteration of tint and treatment in places, would imitate the various slates.
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When sulphur chloride is allowed to act upon phenolsulphonic acid whilst heat is applied, a yellowish-grey mass results, which dissolves in water, forming a reddish-yellow solution.
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The sheets, when thoroughly dried, are of a uniform yellowish-grey colour, and of the characteristic colloidal consistency; they possess a perfectly smooth surface, and are free from internal blisters or cracks.
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The bark on a tree of this size is from three-quarters of an inch to an inch and a half in thickness, smooth, spongy, and of a yellowish-grey colour.
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I saw nothing, however, but the yellowish-grey waves that beat against the dike unceasingly, as if they were roaring with rage, and that now and then bespattered me and my horse with dirty foam; behind them I could see only chaotic dusk which did not let me tell sky and earth apart, for even the half moon which now stood in the sky was most of the time covered by wandering clouds.
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