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Stone-grey   /stoʊn-greɪ/   Listen
Stone-grey

adjective
1.
Of the color of slate or granite.  Synonyms: slate-gray, slate-grey, slatey, slaty, slaty-gray, slaty-grey, stone-gray.






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"Stone-grey" Quotes from Famous Books



... the shop hands. They passed some open lots, and then, on a pleasant rise of ground, they came to a stately residence, lifted still higher on its underpinning of granite blocks. It was built in a Boston suburban taste of twenty years ago, with a lofty mansard-roof, and it was painted the stone-grey colour which was once esteemed for being so quiet. The lawn before it sloped down to the road, where it ended smoothly at the brink of a neat stone wall. A black asphalt path curved from the steps by which you mounted from the street to the steps by which you mounted ...
— Annie Kilburn - A Novel • W. D. Howells

... black horse-hair. The nest is cup-shaped, rather shallow, loosely put together, circular, and about 41/2 inches in diameter. The eggs are sometimes three, sometimes four in number, of a greenish stone-grey, freckled, chiefly at the larger end, with dusky and a few black hair-like streaks, which are not always present; they vary also in the amount of dusky freckling at the larger end. The nestling bird is devoid of the lanceolate ...
— The Nests and Eggs of Indian Birds, Volume 1 • Allan O. Hume



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