"ash-coloured" meaning in English

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      "form": "more ash-coloured",
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    {
      "form": "most ash-coloured",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
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          "ref": "1852, David Dale Owen, Report of a Geological Survey of Wisconsin, Iowa, and Minnesota, page 489",
          "text": "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.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "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",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1895, Horace Howard Furness, A New Variorum Edition of Shakespeare: A midsummer night's dreame. 6th ed., page 134",
          "text": "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.",
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        "Alternative form of ash-colored"
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  "word": "ash-coloured"
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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more ash-coloured",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most ash-coloured",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
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  "pos": "adj",
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        {
          "ref": "1852, David Dale Owen, Report of a Geological Survey of Wisconsin, Iowa, and Minnesota, page 489",
          "text": "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.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "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",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1895, Horace Howard Furness, A New Variorum Edition of Shakespeare: A midsummer night's dreame. 6th ed., page 134",
          "text": "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.",
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        }
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