slaty
English
Etymology
Pronunciation
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Adjective
slaty (comparative slatier, superlative slatiest)
- Resembling the mineral slate.
- 1933-03, Clark Ashton Smith, "The Isle of the Torturers", Weird Tales:
- Their faces and hands were yellow as saffron; their small and slaty eyes were set obliquely beneath lashless lids; and their thin lips, which smiled eternally, were crooked. as the blades of scimitars.
- 1933-03, Clark Ashton Smith, "The Isle of the Torturers", Weird Tales: