mouse-colored

English

Adjective

mouse-colored (comparative more mouse-colored, superlative most mouse-colored)

1. Having a dull brown or dull gray color.
   • 1903, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventure of the Empty House:

     He had thrown off the seedy frockcoat, and now he was the Holmes of old in the mouse-coloured dressing-gown which he took from his effigy.

Derived terms

• mouse-colored antshrike