mouse-colored

Meanings

adjectivemouse-colored (comparative more mouse-colored, superlative most mouse-colored)

Having a dull brown or dull gray color.
He had thrown off the seedy frockcoat, and now he was the Holmes of old in the mouse-coloured dressing-gown which he took from his effigy.
1903, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventure of the Empty House

adjectiveof something having a drab pale brown color resembling a mouse

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