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Ash-grey   Listen
adjective
ash-grey  adj.  
1.
Pale gray; ash-colored.
Synonyms: ash-gray, ashy.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Ash-grey" Quotes from Famous Books



... its ash-grey blossoms sheds on violet skies, Over twilight mountains where the heart songs rise, Rise and fall and fade away from earth to air. Earth renews the music sweeter. Oh, come there. Come, acushla, come, as in ancient times Rings aloud the underland with faery ...
— By Still Waters - Lyrical Poems Old and New • George William Russell

... had his accursed life, by some diabolical providence, spared for future butcheries. On we go across the austere plain, between fields of madder, the red roots of the 'garance' lying in swathes along the furrows. In front rise ash-grey hills of barren rock, here and there crimsoned with the leaves of the dwarf sumach. A huge cliff stands up and seems to bar all passage. Yet the river foams in torrents at our side. Whence can it issue? What pass or cranny in that precipice is ...
— Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece • John Addington Symonds

... under the merciless sun of the dog-days, but which a bath in a glass of water awakens at once. They now display their ring of green leaflets, brightened up and restored to life for a few hours. There are leprous efflorescences, with their white or yellow dust; tiny lichens radiating in ash-grey straps and covered with glaucous, white-edged shields, great round eyes that seem to gaze from the depths of the limbo in which dead matter comes to life again. There are collemas, which, after a shower, become dark ...
— The Glow-Worm and Other Beetles • Jean Henri Fabre



Words linked to "Ash-grey" :   neutral, achromatic, ashy



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