Slate gray is a gray color with a slight azure tinge that is a representation of the average color of the material slate. As a tertiary color, slate (sometimes called olive) is an equal mix of purple and green pigments.
The first recorded use of slate gray as a color name in English was in 1705.
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Famous quotes containing the word gray:
“Far from the sun and summer-gale
In thy green lap was Nature’s Darling laid,
What time, where lucid Avon stray’d,
To him the mighty mother did unveil
Her awful face:”
—Thomas Gray (1716–1771)