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English
Adjective
ashcoloured (comparative more ashcoloured, superlative most ashcoloured)
- Alternative form of ash-colored
1812, Jonathan Stokes, A Botanical Materia Medica, page 464:FRUTEX GLOBULORUM. Rumph. v. 89. t. 48. Seeds ashcoloured, with very fine circles.
1836, Alfred John Kempe, The Loseley Manuscripts, page 408:Among the items of apparel, his "Parliament robes of scarlet; […] a cloak of ashcoloured velvet uncut, embroidered and tissued with gold and silver, and lined with plush of gold and silver."
1860, S.P. Saville, Zoologist, page 6808:Occurrence of the Great Ashcoloured Shrike (Lanius Excubitor) in Cambridgeshire. — Cambridgeshire has once more been visited by a fine male specimen of the great ashcoloured shirke; it was shot at Histon, on the 5th of November; it was accompanied by a female.
1882, Edward Tuckerman, Henry Willey, A Synopsis of the North American Lichens - Volumes 1-2, page 30:Thallus more or less ashcoloured.