salt-and-pepper

comparative more salt-and-pepper · superlative most salt-and-pepper · alternative pepper-and-salt · alternative pepper and salt

1. Having a color pattern resembling many small speckles of black and white.

   salt-and-pepper hair

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   fabric with a salt-and-pepper pattern

   In the Chop House he ran into young Will Hamilton, looking pretty prosperous in a salt and pepper business suit.

   1952, John Steinbeck, East of Eden, New York: Viking, published 1986, Part 2, Chapter 18, p. 277

   A mild infestation gives trees and shrubbery a mottled or salt-and-pepper appearance; with a heavy mite population, foliage turns yellow and falls.

   1962, Rachel Carson, chapter 15, in Silent Spring, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, pages 252–253

   He observed himself staring through the avocado leaves, a gray-haired old man with thick salt-and-pepper sideburns and jealous eyes.

   1979, Bernard Malamud, chapter 9, in Dubin’s Lives, New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, page 330

   “Early on, when we were dating, I was like, ‘Do you think I’m a cougar?’” she recalls with a laugh. When Woolfolk started growing out his salt-and-pepper beard, she was thrilled.

   2026 May 7, Clover Hope, “‘Do you think I’m a cougar?’: five influencer couples on their age-gap relationships”, in The Guardian, →ISSN