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slaty

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slat·y  (slt)
adj. slat·i·er, slat·i·est
1. Composed of or resembling slate.
2. Having the color of slate.
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Adj.1.slaty - of the color of slate or granite; "the slaty sky of dawn"
slate-gray, slate-grey, slatey, slaty-gray, slaty-grey, stone-gray, stone-grey
achromatic, neutral - having no hue; "neutral colors like black or white"
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For a moment she remained dazzlingly white, then faded away slowly to nothing in a squall, only to reappear again, nearly black, resembling a post stuck upright against the slaty background of solid cloud.
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You would not have to look long among those fissures of slaty schist without finding peptites of considerable value.
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We saw the shimmering slaty gleam of their skins between the tree-trunks, and their heads undulating high above the brush-wood.
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