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"It was made with a thin, greyish pastry which had been spread with red jam before being loosely rolled up and presented flattened and in the shape and size of a small baby," she explains.

From BBC ● Apr. 4, 2025

As a result, affected lighter skins adopt a bluish or greyish tinge.

From Salon ● Jan. 20, 2025

The JBL Tour One M2 looks similar to the original Tour One, though this is also available in a greyish beige “champagne” finish.

From The Verge ● Aug. 30, 2022

As Jane Grigson explains in Charcuterie and French Pork Cookery, saltpetre was traditionally used when brining hams to give them “an attractive rosy appearance when otherwise it would be a murky greyish brown”.

From The Guardian ● Mar. 1, 2018

The dust rose up through everything, turning the red uniforms, the cannons, the wagons all a greyish brown.

From "My Brother Sam is Dead" by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier


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