grey
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- noun
- /ɡreɪ/
- Archaic
:
confederado
- On one side, a sturdy grey-stone building is dominated by a huge tower.
- the greys
- blue and grey
Examples
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Her dark hair, streaked with grey, was wound in a bun at the nape of her neck.
Fiction book (1992) -
The data points are displayed as open circles in grey (darker color meaning more overlap).
Academic text (2018) -
The grey is the leader!
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He was wearing dark grey pants and a black top.
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But don't let the grey hair fool you.
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- Who's that boy over there in the grey?
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The wall presented to the street a face of bare grey stone festooned with iron spikes.
Fiction book (1993) -
We passed churches and temples, crosses and statues, grey shacks and latticework mansions.
Fiction book (1994) -
Egrets, darter cormorants, grey herons, and storks hatch nearly 30,000 chicks every year.
Academic text (2005) -
During the Civil War, the soldiers who fought for the South were known as the grey due to their distinctive uniforms.
Idioms
Compounds
- Australian
A very large Australian animal that hops, has grey-brown fur, and is now rare in open woods
- Specialized
A medium-sized tree with five needles in each group and long narrow cones from southern California
How Brown
Surface Forms
Etymology
The word grey for Confederate soldiers comes from the colour of their uniforms. They wore grey coats, so people called them 'the Greys'. That's why 'a Grey' often means a soldier of the Confederate army in history.