Color Names

Flint Grey

Sparkless, dull flint, its stone colour worn to a soft grey.

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Flint Grey is a light grey.

It can be described as light, pale and neutral.

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Flint Grey

Flint

Flint, occasionally flintstone (SiO2), is a sedimentary cryptocrystalline form of the mineral quartz, categorized as the variety of chert that occurs in chalk or marly limestone. Historically, flint was widely used to make stone tools and start fires.

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Grey

Grey or gray is an intermediate color between black and white. It is a neutral or achromatic color, meaning that it has no chroma. It is the color of a rain or storm cloud, of ash, and of lead.

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flint

Noun

  1. A hard, fine-grained quartz that fractures conchoidally and generates sparks when struck against a material such as steel, because tiny chips of the steel are heated to incandescence and burn in air.
  2. A piece of flint, such as a gunflint, used to produce a spark by striking it with a firestriker.

Verb

  1. To furnish or decorate an object with flint.
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grey

Adjective

  1. Commonwealth standard spelling of gray.
  2. Synonym of coloured (pertaining to the mixed race of black and white).

Verb

  1. Commonwealth standard spelling of gray.
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