Grizzle
[grizl]
Definition
(n.) Gray; a gray color; a mixture of white and black.
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Definition
n. a gray colour.—adjs. Grizz′led gray or mixed with gray; Grizz′ly of a gray colour.—n. the grizzly bear (Ursus horribilis) of the Rocky Mountains.
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Examples
- It was abandoned as soon as tried, and he wore his grizzled hair cut short. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- One was fat, with mustachios, and the other was lean and long, in a blue frock-coat, with a brown face and a grizzled head. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- His broad, grizzled head, with its shining patch of baldness, was in the immediate foreground of our vision. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- His hair, too, as he swept off his very curly-brimmed hat, was grizzled round the edges and thin upon the top. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- He was an elderly man, with a thin, projecting nose, a high, bald forehead, and a huge grizzled moustache. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- He was a large man with rounded shoulders, a massive head, and a broad, intelligent face, sloping down to a pointed beard of grizzled brown. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- His head has grizzled since we saw him last, and a line or two of silver may be seen in the soft brown hair likewise. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
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