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knife-coloured

knife-coloured adjective: having the colour of a knife's metal blade; especially, having the glint that reflects off the blade.

Adjective

knife-coloured (comparative more knife-coloured, superlative most knife-coloured)

  1. 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 […]1967, Joyce Cary, The Horse's Mouth, page 96
    • There are certain harsh, knife-coloured mornings in springtime that are more plangently evocative than any leaf-blown autumn day.1993, John Banville, Ghosts

Forms of knife-coloured

comparativemore knife-coloured
superlativemost knife-coloured

Questions about knife-coloured

What does knife-coloured mean?
Knife-coloured means having the colour of a knife's metal blade; especially, having the glint that reflects off the blade.
What part of speech is knife-coloured?
Knife-coloured is an adjective.

Words near knife-coloured in the dictionary

  1. knife's edges
  2. knife-and-fork
  3. knife-boy
  4. knife-boys
  5. knife-colored
  6. knife-coloured
  7. knife-ear
  8. knife-edge
  9. knife-edge effect
  10. knife-edge effects
  11. knife-edges

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