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词汇 slaty
释义 slaty
adjective
(alsoslatey)uk /ˈsleɪ.ti/ us /ˈsleɪ.t̬i/
the colour of slate(= a dark grey rock that can be easily divided into thin pieces):
They walked through the slaty darkness beneath the palm trees.
He now looked across at her with his slaty dark eyes.
The sky was dark, and the sea was a slatier kind of grey, with white horses dancing on the waves.
The wolf looked at me with a cold expression in its slatey little eyes.
containing or made of slate:
This hill is covered with a reddish slaty stone.
In some places the river bed was crossed by slaty reefs.
The rocks were slatey and treacherous, breaking away in thick flakes under our feet.
He wore a slaty grey coat.
Slaty pedestals supported the columns above.
The lights of the city shone out against the slaty sky.
We set off on our journey under slatey skies.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Colour - general words
basophilic
chalkiness
chalky
chromatic
colour gamut
colour wheel
coloured
dye
ombré
palette
pigmentation
pigmented
primary colour
recolour
secondary colour
shade
spectrum
tie-dye
tinge
undertone

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Less common colours
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