"gray-blue" meaning in English

See gray-blue in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Adjective

Forms: more gray-blue [comparative], most gray-blue [superlative], grey-blue [alternative]
Etymology: From gray + blue. Etymology templates: {{compound|en|gray|blue}} gray + blue Head templates: {{en-adj}} gray-blue (comparative more gray-blue, superlative most gray-blue)
  1. (American spelling) Synonym of blue-gray. Tags: US Synonyms: blue-gray [synonym, synonym-of]
    Sense id: en-gray-blue-en-adj-7DcOVPaY Categories (other): English links with manual fragments, English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Colors Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 49 51 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 49 51 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 50 50 Disambiguation of Colors: 47 53

Noun

Forms: gray-blues [plural], grey-blue [alternative]
Etymology: From gray + blue. Etymology templates: {{compound|en|gray|blue}} gray + blue Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} gray-blue (countable and uncountable, plural gray-blues)
  1. (American spelling) Synonym of blue-gray. Tags: US, countable, uncountable Synonyms: blue-gray [synonym, synonym-of]
    Sense id: en-gray-blue-en-noun-7DcOVPaY Categories (other): English links with manual fragments, English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Colors Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 49 51 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 49 51 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 50 50 Disambiguation of Colors: 47 53

Inflected forms

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