Meaning of smoky black | Babel Free

Definitions

A coat colour of horses that is either black or slightly lighter than black.

countable, uncountable

Examples

“During the summer months they sport smoky-black plumage, their wings speckled with white spots, but at this time of year they have mottled grey backs with paler underparts, making them difficult to distinguish from the more prolific common redshank (T totanus).”

“Past president Arthur Watson also uses words, wonderful Scots words for snowfall and nightfall, 25 of them rendered in smoky black, each in its own frame.”

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