Oxford gray

noun

1. medium to dark gray.

Word History and Origins

Origin of Oxford gray¹

First recorded in 1830–40

Example Sentences

Spinciti’s Amsterdam e-bike comes in both high and low frame styles, in black, red, oxford gray, navy blue, “blue jeans,” and “dusty pink.”

From The Verge

In a break with prevailing custom, the White House announced that Johnson will attend the Inauguration wearing "an Oxford gray suit, black shoes and a fedora."

From Time Magazine Archive

But Philip conducted his nephew no farther than round the corner on Canal Street, and when an hour later Yosel Borrochson returned with his uncle his top-boots had been discarded forever, while his wrinkled, semi-military garb had been exchanged for a neat suit of Oxford gray.

From Project Gutenberg

Oxford—gray city of the golden dream, Learning's fairest and most lovely seat in all the world—Oxford was transformed into a hospital for the wounded, a training-camp for new soldiers, a nursery of noble manhood equipped for the stern duties of war.

From Project Gutenberg

In England, man, snow is an Oxford gray, an' in Scotland, a pepper an' salt, an' sometimes a cut-beard, when they get a hard winther.

From Project Gutenberg