ashcoloured

English

Adjective

ashcoloured (comparative more ashcoloured, superlative most ashcoloured)

1. Alternative form of ash-colored
   • 1812, Jonathan Stokes, A Botanical Materia Medica, page 464:

     FRUTEX GLOBULORUM. Rumph. v. 89. t. 48. Seeds ashcoloured, with very fine circles.

   • 1836, Alfred John Kempe, The Loseley Manuscripts, page 408:

     Among the items of apparel, his "Parliament robes of scarlet; […] a cloak of ashcoloured velvet uncut, embroidered and tissued with gold and silver, and lined with plush of gold and silver."

   • 1860, S.P. Saville, Zoologist, page 6808:

     Occurrence of the Great Ashcoloured Shrike (Lanius Excubitor) in Cambridgeshire. — Cambridgeshire has once more been visited by a fine male specimen of the great ashcoloured shirke; it was shot at Histon, on the 5th of November; it was accompanied by a female.

   • 1882, Edward Tuckerman, Henry Willey, A Synopsis of the North American Lichens - Volumes 1-2, page 30:

     Thallus more or less ashcoloured.