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Gray-blue   /greɪ-blu/   Listen
Gray-blue

adjective
1.
Of blue tinged with grey.  Synonyms: grayish-blue, grey-blue, greyish-blue.






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"Gray-blue" Quotes from Famous Books



... some moments before North recognized his visitor, his resentment at this unseasonable intrusion passed quickly; the personality in the chair was so charming, so magnetic, so genial. He was a young man, between thirty and forty, with a long nose, a mobile mouth, dark gray-blue eyes full of fire and humour, and a massive head. It was a face of extraordinary power and intellect, but lit up by a spirit so audacious and impulsive and triumphant that it was like a leaping flame of dazzling brilliancy in some forbidding fortress. ...
— Senator North • Gertrude Atherton

... was a somber note in the splash of clashing color. The Terran recognized the gray-blue robe of the Foanna. There were three of the robed ones this time, one slightly in advance of the other two. They came at a gliding pace as if they swept along above that paved flooring, not by planting feet upon it. As they halted below the dais ...
— Key Out of Time • Andre Alice Norton

... was almost as light-complexioned as Vandenbosch. His thinning hair was light brown, and his eyes were a deep gray-blue, and the lines in his hard, blocky face gave him a look of grim determination. "I agree, Stefan. It isn't the low gravity per se. It's the doggone surges. We went from one gee to zero when the ship came in for a landing at the pole of Threadneedle Street. Then, as we came back down here, the gravity ...
— Anything You Can Do ... • Gordon Randall Garrett

... lost in the deep gray-blue of the sky; a solemn stillness, like the presage of some divine event, seemed for a moment to hold the pulses of the universe; then a soft rose crept into the shimmer of the water and crested the snows on the distant Euganean Hills, the transient, many-tinted glory ...
— A Golden Book of Venice • Mrs. Lawrence Turnbull



Words linked to "Gray-blue" :   greyish-blue, chromatic



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