slaty

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English

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Etymology

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From slate +‎ -y.

Pronunciation

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Adjective

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slaty (comparative slatier, superlative slatiest)

  1. Resembling the rock 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.
    • 1949 May and June, Cecil J. Allen, “British Locomotive Practice and Performance”, in Railway Magazine, page 192:
      But snow had now begun to fall out of a forbiddingly slaty-grey sky, and this seemed to depress both engine and crew.

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