salt and pepper

English

Alternative forms

• salt-and-pepper

Adjective

salt and pepper (comparative more salt and pepper, superlative most salt and pepper)

1. Mixed black and white.
   • As he aged his dark hair became mixed with grey so that by old age he was white haired but as a middle aged man he already had a salt and pepper hair color.
   • His beard was more salt and pepper than black.

Translations

mixed black and white

Japanese: ごま塩 (ごましお, goma shio, “sesame and salt”)