blue-gray

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blue-gray

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From Middle English blew gray, equivalent to blue + gray.

adjective more blue-gray · most blue-gray · blue-grey

  1. US Of a bluish gray color. With flutters of white showing in his big blue-gray wings, he dropped from twig to twig

    Similar: blae

Similar: gray-blue

noun blue-grays · blue-grey

  1. US, countable, uncountable A bluish gray color. The highly clarified surrealism identified with paintings by Kay Sage is akin to the early work of Chirico or Pierre Roy rather than the later more literary and sometimes rather sadistic painting of Ernst and Dali. Her low keyed canvases—grays, blue-grays, off-whites and sometimes tan—employ mysteri

Similar: gray-blue

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adjective

Similar: gray-blue

noun

Similar: gray-blue

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adj of a bluish gray color — see also the hyponyms listed above

Españolaguamarina
日本語ブルーグレー burū gurē, 鳩羽色 hatobairo
Deutschblaugrau, graublau, taubenblau
Русскийси́зый sízyj, се́ро-голубо́й séro-golubój

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@misc{blue_gray_2026,
  title = {blue-gray},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/blue-gray},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}