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Grey

Any of or relating to an achromatic colour of any lightness between the extremes of black and white.

alabaster                      a pale yellowish pink to yellowish grey.

battleship grey           a medium shade of grey.

bisque                          a. a pale orange-yellow to yellowish grey.
b. a colour ranging in various industries from moderate yellowish pink to greyish yellow.

champagne                 a pale orange yellow to greyish yellow or yellowish grey.

charcoal                       a dark greyish brown to black or dark purplish grey.

ciner-eous(-ary)         of a grey colour tinged with black

dapple-grey                grey with a mottled pattern of darker grey markings

donkey-grey               having a grey hue

dove grey                    having a grey hue

dun                               an almost neutral brownish grey to dull greyish brown.

fuliginous                    coloured by or as if by soot

fuscous                       dark brownish-grey in colour.

gre(i)ge                        a greyish beige

grizzly                          greyish or flecked with grey.

gunmetal                     a dark grey.

hoar(y)                         grey or white with or as if with age

iron grey                      a dark grey with a slightly greenish tinge

leaden                          dull, dark grey in colour

livid                              ashen or pallid

navy grey                    a dark grey

olive drab                    a greyish olive to dark olive brown or olive grey.

oxford grey                 a dark grey.

oyster white                a pale yellowish green to light grey.

Payne's grey               having a grey hue

pearl grey                    a light grey, from yellowish to light bluish grey.

platinum                      a medium to light grey.

powder-grey               having a grey hue

putty                            a yellowish or light brownish grey to greyish yellow or light greyish brown.

sand(y)                        a light greyish brown to yellowish grey.

silver                            a lustrous medium grey

slate (blue)                  a dark or bluish grey to dark bluish or dark purplish grey

smoke                          a pale to greyish blue to bluish or dark grey

steel                             steel grey

steel blue                     a medium greyish blue

tattletale grey             white tinged with grey; greyish white

taupe                            a brownish grey

 

 
   
 
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