How To Use greyish-black In A Sentence
- auf dem etwas stockfleckigen Passepartout - stockfleckig was new to me and means with patches caused by mould on textiles, paper, wood - pale, brownish or greyish-black spot with a musty smell - foxed, in fact I had to look up "foxed" too! Languagehat.com: W.G. SEBALD.
- The bartender, a older woman, her weight gathering about her midsection like a water buoy, crow's feet and high greyish-black hair coiffed for the morning rush of mariners and toughs, nodded politely, pointing.
- Still another variety, greyish-black and generally associated with hæmatite iron ore, is called emery, and, when ground in different degrees of fineness, is so well known by its general use as a polishing medium as to need no description. The Chemistry, Properties and Tests of Precious Stones