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Oxford gray

noun

  1. medium to dark gray.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of Oxford gray1

First recorded in 1830–40
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Example Sentences

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Spinciti’s Amsterdam e-bike comes in both high and low frame styles, in black, red, oxford gray, navy blue, “blue jeans,” and “dusty pink.”

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In a break with prevailing custom, the White House announced that Johnson will attend the Inauguration wearing "an Oxford gray suit, black shoes and a fedora."

But Philip conducted his nephew no farther than round the corner on Canal Street, and when an hour later Yosel Borrochson returned with his uncle his top-boots had been discarded forever, while his wrinkled, semi-military garb had been exchanged for a neat suit of Oxford gray.

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Oxford—gray city of the golden dream, Learning's fairest and most lovely seat in all the world—Oxford was transformed into a hospital for the wounded, a training-camp for new soldiers, a nursery of noble manhood equipped for the stern duties of war.

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In England, man, snow is an Oxford gray, an' in Scotland, a pepper an' salt, an' sometimes a cut-beard, when they get a hard winther.

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