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Slate-gray

Slate-gray \Slate"-gray`\, a. Of a dark gray, like slate.

WordNet
slate-gray

adj. of the color of slate or granite; "the slaty sky of dawn" [syn: slaty, slatey, stone-gray]

Usage examples of "slate-gray".

Jocasta herself was wearing another slate-gray tailored suit in synthleather, accessorized in brushed steel and hematite, and she looked like something out of Corporate Woman magazine.

Next to Aidan, with his black hair and slate-gray eyes, Dennis looked washed out, his brown hair and eyes unremarkable.

That accomplished, he pulled on one of the slate-gray borato shirts he favored, found a bottle of white wine in the little wrought iron rack, and carried it and the saddlebag out onto the balcony.

He noted the three seismic engineers from the Japanese army, three servicemen in First Base slate-gray fatigues on their way back after R and R, the two replacement cooks, both women, and the four men who must be the solar heating engineers.

He craned his head, peering at the slate-gray collar beneath the stasis shimmer.

His neck seemed to have trouble holding up his massive head, and his eyes were more of a dull gray than the sharp, piercing slate-gray that Laheran remembered from his apprenticeship in the guild.

The great ice field lay bone-white to my right, and in the opposite direction a slate-gray sea tossed whitecaps like serpents in a bucket of milk.

The general looked remarkably refreshed in a dark blue coverall that was a contrast to the slate-gray fatigues of Colonel Watari and Major Cyberal.

I'm sure I'm a damned nuisance, but it's heartbreakingly beautiful out there -the glittering blue-green sea, the long white sand beach, blinding as snow, and then the slate-gray salt flats, the brackish lakes, the yellow and red sands of the desert dotted with brush-and oh, the sunsets and the clear starlit nights!

A damp, slate-gray morning was smudging the eastern sky as he walked across the Akebonobashi, Bridge of Dawn, beyond which crouched the forbidding bulk of the Ichigaya Barracks which had become symbolic of the inhuman machinery of Western justice.

Himes encountered a little thermal turbulence at all altitudes, and the cockpit glass acted like a greenhouse, trapping the hot Texas sun inside the cockpit and baking his slate-gray helmet.