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pepper-and-salt

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pep·per-and-salt (ppr-n-sôlt)
adj.
Salt-and-pepper.
pepper-and-salt
adj
1. (Clothing, Personal Arts & Crafts / Textiles) (of cloth) marked with a fine mixture of black and white
2. (of hair) streaked with grey
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Noun1.pepper-and-salt - a fabric woven with flecks of light and dark
cloth, fabric, textile, material - artifact made by weaving or felting or knitting or crocheting natural or synthetic fibers; "the fabric in the curtains was light and semitransparent"; "woven cloth originated in Mesopotamia around 5000 BC"; "she measured off enough material for a dress"
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pepper-and-salt [ˌpɛpərənˈsɔːlt] adj (hair) → brizzolato/a, sale e pepe inv
pepper-and-salt [ˌpɛpərənˈsɔːlt] adj (hair) → brizzolato/a, sale e pepe inv


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He rode to hounds in a pepper-and-salt frock, and was one of the best fishermen in the county.
Vanity Fair by Thackeray, William Makepeace View in context
One was a low-spirited gentleman of middle age, of a meagre habit, and a disconsolate face; who kept his hands continually in the pockets of his scanty pepper-and-salt trousers, very large and dog's-eared from that custom; and was not particularly well brushed or washed.
The Chimes by Dickens, Charles View in context
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