What is "pepper-and-salt"

Usage examples of "pepper-and-salt".

His coat, which was originally of a dark dull pepper-and-salt grey, had gone green at the seams and pockets, and moreover it was a ridiculously short skimpy coat for a gaunt big-boned man like this: it was hardly more than a jacket, his great wristy hands burst out of it like lengths of cordwood, and the mark of his high-humped narrow shoulders cut into it with a knife-like sharpness.

The cautious old gentleman knit his brows tenfold closer after this explanation, being sorely puzzled by the ratiocination of the syllogism, while methought the one in pepper-and-salt eyed him with something of a triumphant leer.

The ends of hair seen es caping from under his steel cap were iron gray, and his short, curly, jutting beard was pepper-and-salt in color.

An old-style Britisher straight out of Central Casting: three-piece chalk-stripe suit, pepper-and-salt moustache, tie of obvious distinction, though one whose origin eluded Laraby.