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dustcoloured

dustcoloured is the alternative form of dust-colored.

Meaning of dust-colored

Adjective

dust-colored (comparative more dust-colored, superlative most dust-colored)

  1. Of a dull, pale, brownish color.
    • In the weak eyes of Venus, and in every reddish dust-colored hair in his shock of hair, there was a marked distrust of Wegg and an alertness to fly at him on perceiving the smallest occasion.1865, Charles Dickens, Our Mutual Friend

Forms of dustcoloured

comparativemore dustcoloured
superlativemost dustcoloured

Questions about dustcoloured

What is dustcoloured the alternative form of?
Dustcoloured is the alternative form of dust-colored.

Words near dustcoloured in the dictionary

  1. dustcloud
  2. dustclouds
  3. dustcoat
  4. dustcoats
  5. dustcolored
  6. dustcoloured
  7. dustcover
  8. dustcovers
  9. dustdevil
  10. dustdevils
  11. dusted

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Adapted from Wiktionary: dustcoloured (page history and authors); dust-colored (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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