The Collaborative International Dictionary
Ashy pale
Ashy \Ash"y\, a.
Pertaining to, or composed of, ashes; filled, or strewed with, ashes.
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Ash-colored; whitish gray; deadly pale.
--Shak.Ashy pale, pale as ashes.
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Usage examples of "ashy pale".
It was so beautiful in its form, it was so ashy pale, it was so fixed in its abstraction, it was so full of a wild, sleep-walking, dreamy horror of I don't know what.
His face was ashy pale except for two bright blots of color high up on his cheeks and a third glaring in the center of his forehead like a brand.