What is "washed-out"

Usage examples of "washed-out".

APRON OVER AN OLD SHIRT AND washed-out chinos, James Jesus Angleton was sweeping the aisles of the greenhouse he had recently installed in the back yard of his suburban Arlington house, across the Potomac from the District of Columbia and the Pickle Factory on the Reflecting Pool.

Washed-out blue skies, damp, listless air which hung in messdecks and cabins and painted everything with a dull, misty finish.

Determined not to surrender to panic, she raised her head and caught her first full glimpse of her tormentor, a tall and bulky man whose faded clothes matched his features, giving him the washed-out appearance of an overexposed snapshot.

Sunbright wore a shirt of washed-out yellow and tall boots, and lugged weapons, satchels, and their blanket rolls so he looked like an itinerant peddler.

She came into the room in a quilted, flowered dressing gown that accentuated her washed-out skin.

Greg didn't know the woman, a blowzy thirty-year-old, flat washed-out face, straw hair, wearing a man's green shirt and a short red skirt.

Euphemia wonderec what on earth had made him propose to her ir the first place--certainly not her money, from all accounts he had more than enough of that, and although she was pretty in a washed-out son of way, without her beautiful clothes and clevel make-up she would be a very ordinary girl indeed.

Three hundred miles north of the Arctic Circle, where we at the present moment had the debatable fortune to be, the weather conditions can be as beautifully peaceful as any on earth, with mirror-smooth, milky-white seas stretching from horizon to horizon under a canopy of either washed-out blue or stars that are less stars than little chips of frozen fire in a black, black sky.

But this beach was black as coal, not golden, and the sky was black too, not washed-out blue, and she was a long way from Florida.

Landover's moons had all risen into view now, a gathering of colored spheres dotting the heavens-peach, burnt rose, jade, beryl, sea green, a sort of washed-out mauve, turquoise, and the largest of all, a brilliant white.

Foliage that appeared to be a vivid green by day now had the matte, washed-out look of construction paper.

The watch changed at four, the sky began to lighten from the eastwards, illuminating a sea as grey and flat and worthless as a washed-out water-colour: it showed also the two ships, five miles apart, seemingly intent but scarcely convincing - in fact, plodding to and fro like a couple of myopic old women making the rounds of the dust-bins, not knowing that these had been emptied hours before.

Shades of washed-out brownish purple, a photographic look: a woman in a slip, at a window, seen through a net curtain, her face in shadow.

Grasses grew thick and hardy, sawtooth and razorblade spears that were a washed-out green and mottled gray.

She was wearing a pair of jeans and a baggy washed-out Harlequins rugby shirt.