- slate tan
- noun
: a light olive gray that is deeper than piping rock and deeper and slightly redder than average covert gray
Useful english dictionary. 2012.
slate tan
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Tan-y-Manod railway station — was a railway station in North Wales. It opened as part of the narrow gauge Festiniog and Blaenau Railway on 29 May 1868. On 1 September 1882 the standard gauge Bala Ffestiniog Line reached Llan Ffestiniog from the south. The following year the… … Wikipedia
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slate — slate1 [slāt] n. [ME sclate < OFr esclate, fem. of esclat: see SLAT1] 1. a hard, fine grained, metamorphic rock, typically formed from shale, that cleaves naturally into thin, smooth surfaced layers 2. a thin piece of slate or slatelike… … English World dictionary
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Narrow gauge slate railways in Wales — The slate industry of North Wales was the largest user of narrow gauge railways in the whole of the United Kingdom. Many of the quarries had internal tramways and feeder lines connecting them to transhipment points on local railways, rivers,… … Wikipedia
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slǽtan — wv/t1b to bait (a boar), to slate, set dogs on, hunt with dogs; [causative of slítan]; [to slate a beast is to hound a dog at him; to bait, set dogs on, hunt with dogs] … Old to modern English dictionary
covert gray — noun Etymology: covert (II) + gray : a variable color averaging a light olive gray that is deeper and slightly greener than piping rock and paler and slightly greener than slate tan … Useful english dictionary
