Definition of "ashier" []

• Comparative form of ashy: more ashy (adjective)

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• "● Gray hair can wash out your complexion, so don't even think about using translucent powder, which will only make you look ashier."
• "He talks to proprietors, examines the fresher, blueish-white cloudy carbuncles selling for $1.45 per pound and the ashier, aging ones, a few hours older, discounted to sell quickly for $1.18 per pound before they get slimy."
• "And as he had then looked in the darkness, a man who had turned grey too soon, like a neglected fire: so he now looked in the sun-light, an ashier grey, like a fire which the brightness of the sun put out."