What does "slate-grey" mean?

of the color of slate or granite

What is a synonym for "slate-grey"?

Common synonyms include: slate-gray, slatey, slaty, slaty-gray, slaty-grey, stone-gray.

Slate-grey

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of the color of slate or granite wordnet

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slate-gray slatey slaty slaty-gray slaty-grey stone-gray

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"He had picked from a drawer a little tarnished cylinder, and, undoing the tape, he handed me a short note scrawled upon a half-sheet of slate-grey paper."

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