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salt-and-pepper en · ADJ

Meanings

1. Having a color pattern resembling many small speckles of black and white.
   • In the Chop House he ran into young Will Hamilton, looking pretty prosperous in a salt and pepper business suit. 1952, John Steinbeck, East of Eden, New York: Viking, published 1986, Part 2, Chapter 18, p. 277:
   • “Early on, when we were dating, I was like, ‘Do you think I’m a cougar?’” she recalls with a laugh. When Woolfolk started growing out his salt-and-pepper beard, she was thrilled. 2026 May 7, Clover Hope, “‘Do you think I’m a cougar?’: five influencer couples on their age-gap relationships”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
   • salt-and-pepper hair
   • A mild infestation gives trees and shrubbery a mottled or salt-and-pepper appearance; with a heavy mite population, foliage turns yellow and falls. 1962, Rachel Carson, chapter 15, in Silent Spring, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, pages 252–253:
   • He observed himself staring through the avocado leaves, a gray-haired old man with thick salt-and-pepper sideburns and jealous eyes. 1979, Bernard Malamud, chapter 9, in Dubin’s Lives, New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, page 330:
   • fabric with a salt-and-pepper pattern

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Translations (9)

cmn 星星 (speckled colour) · fr poivre et sel (speckled colour) · cy pupur a halen (speckled colour) · cmn 花白 (speckled colour) · ar خَلِيس (speckled colour) · uz mosh-guruch (speckled colour) · de graumeliert (speckled colour) · uz mosh-birinch (speckled colour) · de angegraut (speckled colour)