Crane-coloured, ashen gray (quot. 1517).

of this colour.

attributive of the colour of crane's feathers.

(used attributively.)

Somewhat like ash in colour; greyish. Cf. cineritious, adj. 1.

Of an ashy hue, ash-coloured, ashen-gray; spec. in names of birds having ash-coloured feathers, as the cinereous crow, cinereous eagle, etc.

= cinereous, adj.