dustcolored

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A form of dust-colored — Of a dull, pale, brownish color.

Scrabble 15

Meanings

adjectivedustcolored (comparative more dustcolored, superlative most dustcolored)

comparative more dustcolored · superlative most dustcolored

  1. alternativerareAlternative form of dust-colored.

    Kept swirling like dust under their dustcolored heaven.

    1995, Quarterly review of literature: Poetry series - Volume 34, page 10
    2 more examples

    Somewhere in some dustbowl a barbed-wire contonment of low-cost dustcolored prefab buildings, smelling of shame and hopeless incontinence identical clothes of disposable paper, identical rations of chemically flavored food

    1976, Suppression and Expression in Poetry by American Women

    Old Tiflis, dustcolored with an occasional patch of blue or white on a house, is loosely sprinkled in the funnel out of which the copper-wire river pours into the plain.

    2003, John Dos Passos, Travel books and other writings, 1916-1941, page 162
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