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A light bluish gray to light gray that is redder and darker than skimmed-milk white and very slightly redder than glaucous gray.

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  • And to make matters worse, Aegypius monachus is known in English as both cinereous vulture and cinerous vulture.
  • I wish a happy holiday to those of my readers who celebrate it, and may the cinerous blur and smudge in which we live spare all of us any unnecessary grief.
  • Seen in mass, and at a distance, the woodlands are a soft cinerous purple.
  • The neatly plaited folds of the leaves of the oak display a greenish or cinerous purple, a soft and delicate presentment of the stronger colors which come in October,...
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