ash-coloured

comparative more ash-coloured · superlative most ash-coloured

1. alternativeAlternative form of ash-colored.

   We were never able to discover any fossils in the ash-coloured clay, No. 1, of the following section of the drift formation, as it presented itself high up on the Blue Earth River.

   1852, David Dale Owen, Report of a Geological Survey of Wisconsin, Iowa, and Minnesota, page 489

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   Claude Villette, who wrote in a still earlier time, speaks of grey or ash-coloured, violet, yellow, and dove-coloured (colombin) as secondary colours to the four chief colours in use in the Gallacan Church.

   1885, J. Wickham Legg, “Notes on the History of the Liturgical Colours”, in Transactions of the St. Paul's Ecclesiological Society, volume 1, page 100

   Lately, however, on looking into the question afresh, I have found proof that “russet,” although rather loosely used, did bear the meaning of grey or ash-coloured, and I now give the evidence for the benefit of others.

   1895, Horace Howard Furness, A New Variorum Edition of Shakespeare: A midsummer night's dreame. 6th ed., page 134