Definitions
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- adjective of grey tinged with red
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Examples
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The rock lowest down in the series is dark reddish-grey syenite.
A Popular Account of Dr. Livingstone's Expedition to the Zambesi and Its Tributaries 2004
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The grin was partly masked by masses of reddish-grey beard and whiskers; a perfect jungle of a beard, such as is sometimes grown by white men living in the jungles; but the eyes above the snub nose had nothing about them in the least wild or outlandish.
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Al-Madinah are large and heavy, of a reddish-grey colour, and celebrated for cooling water, a property not possessed by those of
Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah 2003
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The grin was partly masked by masses of reddish-grey beard and whiskers; a perfect jungle of a beard, such as is sometimes grown by white men living in the jungles; but the eyes above the snub nose had nothing about them in the least wild or outlandish.
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Rather a rich brown in general tone, the exposed surfaces of the bluff display an attractive collection of geological fragments, rough and angular pebbles and sharp chips of speckled granite quartz of the purity of alabaster, reddish-grey porphyry, with occasional pieces of brick-red sandstone, nodules of greenish-black basalt, etc.
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The bark is reddish-grey, and may be partly hidden by brown, grey and green patches of lichen.
Cocoa and Chocolate Their History from Plantation to Consumer Arthur William Knapp
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Flowers springing from the ridges, about 8 in. long, the tube covered with reddish-grey scales, which pass upwards into the sepals; petals spreading, white, the margins toothed, and forming a spreading top, not unlike a large white single Camellia; the stamens are arranged in a sort of cup, and are yellow-anthered, with a large rayed yellow stigma in the middle.
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Two brown, rich-hued, bright-faced youths; reddish-grey mantles around them; white-silver brooches in their mantles over their breasts; a bright-hilted sword under their waists; purple sandals they wore; as sweet as strings of lutes when long sustained in players 'hands was the voice and song of one of the men, so that enough of delight it was to the host to listen to the sound of his voice.
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It was a large reddish-grey stone building, pretty old, I should say, and surrounded by a graveyard.
Bullets & Billets Bruce Bairnsfather
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He had a beard that reached to his middle, and but little hair, of a reddish-grey colour, on his head.
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