ash-coloured
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.72 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
3
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "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."
- "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."
Inflected Forms
more ash-coloured (comparative)
most ash-coloured (superlative)