Iron-gray (Noun)
Meaning
The color of freshly broken cast iron.
Classification
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects.
Examples
- The iron-gray surface of the fractured engine block seemed to absorb the light around it.
- When the excavator's claw ripped through the old machinery, it exposed a swathe of iron-gray metal beneath.
- As the sculptor chiseled away at the casting, the iron-gray patina that had formed on its surface began to reveal itself.
- The machinist's hands moved deftly over the iron-gray metal, shaping it into the desired form.
- After years of being buried in the earth, the iron-gray remnants of the old car were slowly being unearthed.