silver-coloured, a.
[silver n. 17.]
Having the colour of silver; of a greyish white hue with a metallic lustre.
| 1594 ? Greene Selimus 154 Aged winter hath besprent my head With a hoarfrost of silver-coloured hairs. 1611 Cotgr., Ravel,..a little sea-fish, that hath..a siluer-coloured bellie. 1679 M. Rusden Further Disc. Bees 5 Having three partitions in his belly, with silver-coloured lines going cross. 1707 Mortimer Husb. (1721) II. 163 The Silver [Rosemary] denominated from its Silver-colour'd Leaves. 1774 Goldsm. Nat. Hist. (1824) III. 228 It has also four expansive silver-coloured wings. 1831 A. Wilson's Amer. Ornith. IV. 358 Silver coloured tern. Sterna argentacea. 1871 Darwin Desc. Man ii. xv. (1890) 446 Dragons not rarely produce silver-coloured birds. |