ash-colored

The female has no wings, is oval in form, dark-ash colored above, and gray underneath.

A hideous thing was coiled, like a great ash-colored serpent, around that delicate neck, and fell writhing along the scaffold.

He looked up; the night had come on foggy, damp; the golden mists had vanished, and the sky lay dull and ash-colored.

Those participating then go to the river to wash, and the chief mourners paint part of their bodies with an ash-colored soil.

When they were taken out and the soap had been rinsed from them, they appeared to be composed of fine, strong, ash-colored silk.