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单词 pepper-and-salt
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Definition of pepper-and-salt in English:

pepper-and-salt

adjective
  • Flecked or speckled with intermingled dark and light shades.

    his pepper-and-salt beard
    Example sentencesExamples
    • 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.
    • 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.
 
 

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.
 
 
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