mouse-colored
- adjective
- /ˈmaʊsˌkʌlɚd/
:
color ratón
- She wore a lovely dress that matched her mouse-colored hair perfectly.
- mouse-colored hair
Examples
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The string of spare horses included a mouse-colored grullo whose looks Ennis liked.
Fiction book (2000) -
As though some magic had escaped from the Elflands, her dry mouse-colored hair seemed to shine a little.
Fiction book (1992) -
Frances had the Frenches' long, bony nose and fine, mouse-colored hair, but there was a grace in her, a quickness from some other source.
Fiction book (1993) -
This Sunday, I sank into the armchair, secure in my mouse-colored hair, and peered at the two of them over the top of the book Mum had borrowed for me from Boot's Lending Library.
Fiction book (1994) -
In the midnight kitchen, she forgot to have the electricity turned on. Streetlights show cartons piled on the floor beside the new kitten's bed, on the old mouse-colored linoleum countertops, and on the round table.
Fiction book (1994) -
The old mouse-colored sofa blended into the drab living room decor.
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His mouse-colored coat kept him warm during the chilly winter evenings.
Synonyms
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5.3
A dull grey or light brownish green color often used for uniforms
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4.8
A dull pale brown color like light brown hair
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6.9
A dull greyish-brown color like the fur of some horses
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2.7
A gray color with a little brown in it
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6.8
Of a dull brown-grey color
A dull pale brown or grey colour like mouse fur
A grey color with a little brown in it
A dull brown and gray color like dry earth
A dark brownish-grey colour like old wood
A light pale gray that looks like soft smoke
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Etymology
Mouse-colored comes from the small animal mouse and simply means 'the color of a mouse', a dull, pale brownish-grey. So we call walls, hair, or clothes mouse-colored when they have that quiet, faded shade.