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salt-and-pepper

salt-and-pepper adjective: having a color pattern resembling many small speckles of black and white.

Adjective

salt-and-pepper (comparative more salt-and-pepper, superlative most salt-and-pepper)

  1. Having a color pattern resembling many small speckles of black and white.
    • salt-and-pepper hair
    • fabric with a salt-and-pepper pattern

salt-and-pepper meaning in Arabic

salt-and-pepper in Arabic

speckled colour
خَلِيس ḵalīs

Examples of salt-and-pepper in a sentence

  • A mild infestation gives trees and shrubbery a mottled or salt-and-pepper appearance; with a heavy mite population, foliage turns yellow and falls.1962, Rachel Carson, chapter 15, in Silent Spring, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, pages 252–253:
  • He observed himself staring through the avocado leaves, a gray-haired old man with thick salt-and-pepper sideburns and jealous eyes.1979, Bernard Malamud, chapter 9, in Dubin’s Lives, New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, page 330:
  • When Woolfolk started growing out his salt-and-pepper beard, she was thrilled.2026 May 7, Clover Hope, “‘Do you think I’m a cougar?’: five influencer couples on their age-gap relationships”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:

Forms of salt-and-pepper

comparativemore salt-and-pepper
superlativemost salt-and-pepper
alternative formpepper-and-salt
alternative formpepper and salt

Phrases with salt-and-pepper

Questions about salt-and-pepper

What does salt-and-pepper mean?
Salt-and-pepper means having a color pattern resembling many small speckles of black and white.
What is salt-and-pepper in Arabic?
Salt-and-pepper in Arabic is خَلِيس (ḵalīs). See Salt-and-pepper meaning in Arabic.
How do you use salt-and-pepper in a sentence?
A mild infestation gives trees and shrubbery a mottled or salt-and-pepper appearance; with a heavy mite population, foliage turns yellow and falls.
What part of speech is salt-and-pepper?
Salt-and-pepper is an adjective.

Words near salt-and-pepper in the dictionary

  1. salt waters
  2. salt wedge
  3. salt wedges
  4. salt works
  5. Salt's dik-dik
  6. salt-and-pepper
  7. salt-and-pepper doris
  8. salt-and-pepper noise
  9. salt-box
  10. salt-boxes
  11. salt-cat

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