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Bluish-gray   /blˈuɪʃ-greɪ/   Listen
Bluish-gray

adjective
1.
Of grey tinged with blue.  Synonyms: blue-gray, blue-grey, bluish-grey.





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"Bluish-gray" Quotes from Famous Books



... like a tremenjous big cat, about four feet high an' five or six feet in length. It was a sort o' bluish-gray color. An' it had a very long tail curled up at the end, which it moved ...
— Camp and Trail - A Story of the Maine Woods • Isabel Hornibrook
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... to judge his age—had one taken the trouble to try. Perhaps he was thirty-eight. He surely was not French. There was no Indian blood in him. His heavy beard was reddish, his long thick hair distinctly blond, and his eyes were a bluish-gray. ...
— Back to God's Country and Other Stories • James Oliver Curwood
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... boat visited the outer north-easternmost islet, named in the chart Water Island, which was found to be as rocky in reality as it was in appearance. It is formed of a hard granular quartzose sandstone, of a bluish-gray colour; the basis is disposed in horizontal strata but the surface is covered with large amorphous rocks of the same character that have evidently been detached and heaped together by some convulsion of nature: over these a shallow soil is sprinkled, ...
— Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of Australia - Performed between the years 1818 and 1822 • Phillip Parker King
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... day of our visit, its pillars of pale bluish-gray limestone rose against a wintry sky, its guardian oaks were leafless, and the wind whistled over its heaps of ruin; yet its symmetry was like that of a perfect statue, wherein you do not notice the absence of color, and I felt that no sky and no season could make it more beautiful. For its builder ...
— Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Vol VIII - Italy and Greece, Part Two • Various
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... above all others that gave him the look of a bird of prey was his bluish-gray eye. An eye that was never still and always shone with a glitter. The only time this strange light was not noticeable was during the moments when he drew the lids down half-way. He was in the habit of holding ...
— The Man in Gray • Thomas Dixon
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