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knife-coloured

adj

Definitions

  1. Having the colour of a knife's metal blade

    Having the colour of a knife's metal blade; especially, having the glint that reflects off the blade.

    • Broken lumps of cloud whirling across a knife-coloured sky like wreckage on a Thames flood. Moon running over the house fronts like a spotlight. When it fell on the willows, they trembled like girls caught in dark corners […]
    • There are certain harsh, knife-coloured mornings in springtime that are more plangently evocative than any leaf-blown autumn day.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA