gray-white
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- adjective
- /ɡreɪ waɪt/
- US
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blanco grisáceo
- The artist chose a gray-white palette to evoke a sense of calm in her painting.
- gray-white hair
- gray-white light
Examples
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The landscape was dominated by a gray-white fog that obscured everything in sight.
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She admired the gray-white clouds drifting lazily across the sky during the winter afternoon.
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The children lived together in the gray-white building opposite the playing field.
Fiction book (1999) -
Two gray-white faces this time, with just a touch of yellow.
Fiction book (1991) -
The man drove them to a gray-white building that was opposite a playing field.
Fiction book (1999) -
Laura loved the winter for its stillness and its gray-white beauty.
Fiction book (2002) -
The same gray-white rocks filled every space between the wooden crossties.
Fiction book (2000) -
The glass roof of the long greenhouse below it was smeared gray-white with lime wash.
Fiction book (1990) -
The cut surface had a homogeneous gray-white color without any recognizable gross pattern.
Academic text (2006) -
Gray-white slush churned out of the hole, sluiced across the crusted snow, and refroze in seconds.
Fiction book (2000)
Synonyms
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Light in color, slightly pale like milk
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A pale color close to white with a slight hint of another color
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A pale white color with a little gray
A very light grey that looks almost white
How Gray
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Gray-white is simply the two common words gray and white put together, like white paint with a little gray mixed in. So, gray-white means 'white with a slight tinge of grey', which is why we use it to describe pale colours, skin tone, or an old photograph.