Mouse-colored

adj

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Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    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."

Adjective
  1. 1
    of something having a drab pale brown color resembling a mouse wordnet

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"She then went to look into the mouse-trap, where she found six mice, all alive. She ordered Cinderella to lift the trap-door, when, giving each mouse, as it went out, a little tap with her wand, it was that moment turned into a fine horse, and the six mice made a fine set of six horses of a beautiful mouse-colored, dapple gray."

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