"knife-coloured" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more knife-coloured",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most knife-coloured",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "args": {},
      "expansion": "knife-coloured (comparative more knife-coloured, superlative most knife-coloured)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
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        {
          "kind": "other",
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          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Colors",
          "orig": "en:Colors",
          "parents": [
            "Light",
            "Vision",
            "Energy",
            "Senses",
            "Nature",
            "Perception",
            "All topics",
            "Body",
            "Fundamental",
            "Human"
          ],
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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": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "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": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "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",
      "links": [
        [
          "colour",
          "colour"
        ],
        [
          "knife",
          "knife"
        ],
        [
          "metal",
          "metal"
        ],
        [
          "blade",
          "blade"
        ],
        [
          "glint",
          "glint"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "knife-coloured"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more knife-coloured",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most knife-coloured",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "knife-coloured (comparative more knife-coloured, superlative most knife-coloured)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
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        "en:Colors"
      ],
      "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": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "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": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Having the colour of a knife's metal blade; especially, having the glint that reflects off the blade."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "colour",
          "colour"
        ],
        [
          "knife",
          "knife"
        ],
        [
          "metal",
          "metal"
        ],
        [
          "blade",
          "blade"
        ],
        [
          "glint",
          "glint"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "knife-coloured"
}