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Definition of "leaden-gray" [leaden-gray]

  • Same as lead-gray. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

Use "leaden-gray" in a sentence
  • "Nothing but heavy leaden-gray clouds and a stiff wind up here in central Maine."
  • "Da Capo Press The carriage drew up at the Fifteenth Street entrance to the Northeast Executive Building, a squat, thirty-year-old, two-story structure, its leaden-gray paintwork leavened with white trim."
  • "From the steamer one could see neither the water, nor the shore, nor the sky; a leaden-gray gloominess enwrapped it on all sides; devoid of shadings, painfully monotonous, the gloominess was motionless, it oppressed the steamer with immeasurable weight, slackened its movements and seemed as though preparing itself to swallow it even as it was swallowing the sounds."