blue-gray

adj

blue-gray

adj

Etymology From blue + gray.

1

Of a bluish grey color.

  • With flutters of white showing in his big blue-gray wings, he dropped from twig to twig1840, Patten Beard, “Peter of the Wild Rose-Tree”, in St. nicholas: A Monthly Magazine for Boys and Girls, volume 41, part 2:
Synonyms
gray-blue, grey-blue, blae
Related terms
perse, blunket, gainsboro, gunmetal, petrol blue, caesious, glaucous
Hyponyms
clair de lune, Copenhagen blue, slate, slate blue, slate gray, Wedgwood blue

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