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Cinereous

Cinereous \Ci*ne"re*ous\, a. [L. cinereus, fr. cinis ashes.] Like ashes; ash-colored; grayish.

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cinereous

a. 1 Of an ash-gray colour. 2 Like ashes. 3 Containing ashes. n. An ash-gray colour.

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Cinereous

Cinereous is a colour, meaning ashy grey in appearance, either consisting of or resembling ashes, or a grey colour tinged with coppery brown. It is derived from the Latin cinereous, from cinis (ashes).

The first recorded use of cinereous as a colour name in English was in 1661.

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Usage examples of "cinereous".

The place did not even justify its name, for it was a cinereous wreck.

The rain came in increasing force, seething over the cinereous thickets.

Blood splashed cinereous fur, and not all of it was theirs, for their teeth were like razors, and he could not keep them all from him.