ash-coloured

English

Adjective

ash-coloured (comparative more ash-coloured, superlative most ash-coloured)

1. Alternative form of ash-colored
   • 1852, David Dale Owen, Report of a Geological Survey of Wisconsin, Iowa, and Minnesota, page 489:

     We were never able to discover any fossils in the ash-coloured clay, No. 1, of the following section of the drift formation, as it presented itself high up on the Blue Earth River.

   • 1885, J. Wickham Legg, “Notes on the History of the Liturgical Colours”, in Transactions of the St. Paul's Ecclesiological Society, volume 1, page 100:

     Claude Villette, who wrote in a still earlier time, speaks of grey or ash-coloured, violet, yellow, and dove-coloured (colombin) as secondary colours to the four chief colours in use in the Gallacan Church.

   • 1895, Horace Howard Furness, A New Variorum Edition of Shakespeare: A midsummer night's dreame. 6th ed., page 134:

     Lately, however, on looking into the question afresh, I have found proof that “russet,” although rather loosely used, did bear the meaning of grey or ash-coloured, and I now give the evidence for the benefit of others.