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iron gray
noun
- a medium shade of gray, like that of freshly broken iron.
Other Words From
- iron-gray adjective
Word History and Origins
Origin of iron gray1
Example Sentences
Perhaps it’s the iron gray of the afternoon sky overhead, casting gloom as it always does this time of year, but today the two of them look especially worn down and tired.
Maybe it’s the small round frames of his spectacles, or the iron gray denim jacket over the black T-shirt or the effortless, enthusiastic erudition of his speech, but he seems close to the Platonic ideal of a graduate teaching assistant, a guy you might encounter just uptown in a Columbia University classroom.
Her hair had been hacked short, so its iron gray curls burst helter-skelter all over her narrow head.
Above him the sky was iron gray, featureless and flat as a mirror.
The color scheme is cinder block and corrugated iron, gray and dark gray, punctuated by bright splashes of color.
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