blue-grey

comparative more blue-grey · superlative most blue-grey

1. Commonwealth standard spelling of blue-gray.

plural blue-greys

1. countableuncountableCommonwealth standard spelling of blue-gray.

   She gave Ellie a vintage Burberry trench in blue-grey that felt “a bit detective”, along with blazers, berets and vintage shoes from the Sixties.

   2021 August 4, Emily Cronin, “The Last Letter From Your Lover: the film making the Sixties look more stylish than ever”, in Chris Evans, editor, The Daily Telegraph, London: Telegraph Media Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 04 Aug 2021

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   But desire trumped fear, and down they plumped, mixing thick impasto ochres and burnt chocolate and smoky blue-greys into the lime green and orange of rotting fruit.

   2017 January 17, Mark Cocker, “An object lesson in thrush hunger”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 17 Jan 2017

   Neel’s partner of the time, filmmaker Sam Brodie (1945), is seen in stark profile against a wintry sky from which ghostly faces appear, while sociologist Horace Cayton (1949) is a quasi-Cubist study in muted blue-greys and lilacs.

   2023 February 15, Mark Hudson, “Alice Neel: Hot off the Griddle review – easy on the eye portraits from an artist with guts”, in The Independent, London: Independent News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 03 Nov 2025