"salt-and-pepper" meaning in English

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    {
      "form": "more salt-and-pepper",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
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    },
    {
      "form": "most salt-and-pepper",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
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      "expansion": "salt-and-pepper (comparative more salt-and-pepper, superlative most salt-and-pepper)",
      "name": "en-adj"
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "salt-and-pepper hair"
        },
        {
          "text": "fabric with a salt-and-pepper pattern"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1952, John Steinbeck, East of Eden, New York: Viking, published 1986, Part 2, Chapter 18, p. 277",
          "text": "In the Chop House he ran into young Will Hamilton, looking pretty prosperous in a salt and pepper business suit.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1962, Rachel Carson, chapter 15, in Silent Spring, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, pages 252–253",
          "text": "A mild infestation gives trees and shrubbery a mottled or salt-and-pepper appearance; with a heavy mite population, foliage turns yellow and falls.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1979, Bernard Malamud, chapter 9, in Dubin’s Lives, New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, page 330",
          "text": "He observed himself staring through the avocado leaves, a gray-haired old man with thick salt-and-pepper sideburns and jealous eyes.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Having a color pattern resembling many small speckles of black and white."
      ],
      "id": "en-salt-and-pepper-en-adj-Y3JXVJTo",
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          "speckle",
          "speckle"
        ],
        [
          "black",
          "black"
        ],
        [
          "white",
          "white"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "pepper-and-salt"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "salt-and-pepper"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more salt-and-pepper",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most salt-and-pepper",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "expansion": "salt-and-pepper (comparative more salt-and-pepper, superlative most salt-and-pepper)",
      "name": "en-adj"
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "salt-and-pepper hair"
        },
        {
          "text": "fabric with a salt-and-pepper pattern"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1952, John Steinbeck, East of Eden, New York: Viking, published 1986, Part 2, Chapter 18, p. 277",
          "text": "In the Chop House he ran into young Will Hamilton, looking pretty prosperous in a salt and pepper business suit.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1962, Rachel Carson, chapter 15, in Silent Spring, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, pages 252–253",
          "text": "A mild infestation gives trees and shrubbery a mottled or salt-and-pepper appearance; with a heavy mite population, foliage turns yellow and falls.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1979, Bernard Malamud, chapter 9, in Dubin’s Lives, New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, page 330",
          "text": "He observed himself staring through the avocado leaves, a gray-haired old man with thick salt-and-pepper sideburns and jealous eyes.",
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        "Having a color pattern resembling many small speckles of black and white."
      ],
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          "speckle"
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          "black",
          "black"
        ],
        [
          "white",
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        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "pepper-and-salt"
    }
  ],
  "word": "salt-and-pepper"
}