blue-gray

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1. USOf a bluish gray color.

   With flutters of white showing in his big blue-gray wings, he dropped from twig to twig

   1840, Patten Beard, “Peter of the Wild Rose-Tree”, in St. nicholas: A Monthly Magazine for Boys and Girls, volume 41, part 2

   Synonyms: blae

plural blue-grays · alternative blue-grey

1. UScountableuncountableA bluish gray color.

   A third man in blue-gray came walking through the park rapidly with his walkie-talkie out and his hand on his holstered gun.

   1992 October 18, William T[anner] Vollman[n], “Welcome to Hell: At Ground Zero in the War in Yugoslavia, These Are the Rules […]”, in Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles, Calif.: Los Angeles Times Communications, →ISSN, →OCLC

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   The highly clarified surrealism identified with paintings by Kay Sage is akin to the early work of Chirico or Pierre Roy rather than the later more literary and sometimes rather sadistic painting of Ernst and Dali. Her low keyed canvases—grays, blue-grays, off-whites and sometimes tan—employ mysterious structures opening on infinity.

   1958 November 2, Howard Devree, “Exotic Notes: Amazing Old West African Sculpture—Four Contemporary Painters”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC

   The rough surface of the El Greco is of course deliberate. The Holy Family and the Magdalene inhabit a swirl of folded color — the primaries of their robes and the blue-grays of the sky — all highlighted with slashes of white.

   2006 November 10, Roberta Smith, “Old Masters Say, Can We Talk?”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 29 Apr 2018