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the color that refuses to take sides, and somehow wins every argument anyway
means A neutral color between black and white, the shade of overcast skies, ash, and weathered stone — and figuratively, anything ambiguous or undefined.
from From Old English 'græg,' tracing back to a Proto-Germanic root '*grēwaz' (compare German 'grau,' Dutch 'grauw,' and Old Norse 'grár'). The spelling has long quarreled with itself: 'gray' settled in as the American preference while 'grey' held its ground in Britain — a fitting split for a color that refuses to commit.
- brain matter
- Gray matter is actually pinkish-tan while alive
- battleship logic
- Warships wear gray to vanish into sea haze
- spelled both ways
- Gray is American, grey is British, same fog
- aging proof
- Hair turns gray as pigment cells quit producing
- neutral throne
- Reflects no hue, so it flatters every other color
gray wolf — canis lupus, largest wild canine in north america and eurasia
gray whale — eschrichtius robustus, migrates 12,000 miles annually between arctic and mexico
gray matter — neural tissue in brain and spinal cord containing neuron cell bodies