"knife-coloured" meaning in English

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    {
      "form": "more knife-coloured",
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    },
    {
      "form": "most knife-coloured",
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        "superlative"
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1967, Joyce Cary, The Horse's Mouth, page 96:",
          "text": "Broken lumps of cloud whirling across a knife-coloured sky like wreckage on a Thames flood. Moon running over the house fronts like a spotlight. When it fell on the willows, they trembled like girls caught in dark corners […]",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1993, John Banville, Ghosts:",
          "text": "There are certain harsh, knife-coloured mornings in springtime that are more plangently evocative than any leaf-blown autumn day.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Having the colour of a knife's metal blade; especially, having the glint that reflects off the blade."
      ],
      "id": "en-knife-coloured-en-adj-KwcmJUlA",
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        [
          "colour",
          "colour"
        ],
        [
          "knife",
          "knife"
        ],
        [
          "metal",
          "metal"
        ],
        [
          "blade",
          "blade"
        ],
        [
          "glint",
          "glint"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "knife-coloured"
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    {
      "form": "more knife-coloured",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most knife-coloured",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
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        {
          "ref": "1967, Joyce Cary, The Horse's Mouth, page 96:",
          "text": "Broken lumps of cloud whirling across a knife-coloured sky like wreckage on a Thames flood. Moon running over the house fronts like a spotlight. When it fell on the willows, they trembled like girls caught in dark corners […]",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1993, John Banville, Ghosts:",
          "text": "There are certain harsh, knife-coloured mornings in springtime that are more plangently evocative than any leaf-blown autumn day.",
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        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Having the colour of a knife's metal blade; especially, having the glint that reflects off the blade."
      ],
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          "colour",
          "colour"
        ],
        [
          "knife",
          "knife"
        ],
        [
          "metal",
          "metal"
        ],
        [
          "blade",
          "blade"
        ],
        [
          "glint",
          "glint"
        ]
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