ashcoloured

comparative more ashcoloured · superlative most ashcoloured

1. alternativeAlternative form of ash-colored.

   Thallus more or less ashcoloured.

   1882, Edward Tuckerman, Henry Willey, A Synopsis of the North American Lichens - Volumes 1-2, page 30

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   FRUTEX GLOBULORUM. Rumph. v. 89. t. 48. Seeds ashcoloured, with very fine circles.

   1812, Jonathan Stokes, A Botanical Materia Medica, page 464

   Among the items of apparel, his "Parliament robes of scarlet; […] a cloak of ashcoloured velvet uncut, embroidered and tissued with gold and silver, and lined with plush of gold and silver."

   1836, Alfred John Kempe, The Loseley Manuscripts, page 408

   Occurrence of the Great Ashcoloured Shrike (Lanius Excubitor) in Cambridgeshire. — Cambridgeshire has once more been visited by a fine male specimen of the great ashcoloured shirke; it was shot at Histon, on the 5th of November; it was accompanied by a female.

   1860, S.P. Saville, Zoologist, page 6808