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Definition of Stone-gray
1. Adjective. Of the color of slate or granite. "The slaty sky of dawn"
Similar to: Achromatic, Neutral
Lexicographical Neighbors of Stone-gray
Literary usage of Stone-gray
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Poultry Culture: How to Raise, Manage, Mate and Judge Thoroughbred Fowls by Isaac Kimbal Felch (1902)
"... breast, light red wine color, shading to an ashen gray body and thighs, the
stern being a steel gray color ; primaries and secondaries are a stone gray, ..."
2. Harper's New Monthly Magazine by Henry Mills Alden (1881)
"... stone gray, and yellows, the creamy white, and the black. This gives them
sufficient range, and they can not improve upon it. For ornaments, amber, gold ..."
3. The Butterfly Book: A Popular Guide to a Knowledge of the Butterflies of by William Jacob Holland (1898)
"On the under side the wings are deep, warm stone-gray. There is a single quite
regular band of large-sized black spots on the fore wing beyond the middle, ..."
4. The Records of a Scottish Cloth Manufactory at New Mills, Haddingtonshire by William Robert Scott (1905)
"9 ends half and whole Spanish light stone grays like the last years or the light
stone gray No. 30 in the patrone book. 6 ends do. fyne like the sad stone ..."
5. The American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge edited by George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana (1883)
"The ordinary zino white, and " stone gray " and "gray oxide" of the English, are
less pure. Stone gray is used as a ground color for walls, iron work, &c., ..."
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