Definition of pepper-and-salt in US English:
pepper-and-salt
adjectiveˈpepər ən(d) ˈsôltˈpɛpər ən(d) ˈsɔlt
Flecked or speckled with intermingled dark and light shades; salt-and-pepper.
his pepper-and-salt beard
Example sentencesExamples
- And though he wore corduroys at work, and a slop-made pepper-and-salt suit on Sundays, strangers would turn round to look after him on the road.
- After the war, her costume ‘is covered, winter and summer, by a frayed macintosh… and she now wears a hat as well - a thing like a basket pulled down over her straying, pepper-and-salt hair’.
- I smiled at the face in the mirror, scraped at the pepper-and-salt stubble, and gave myself a very close shave.
- His big problem, as he might admit in the lonely watches of the night, is located just below the pepper-and-salt moustache of which he is so proud.
- He was dressed in a pepper-and-salt suit, which was all the rage in those days.