OXFORD 9000
📚 adj • entry_id 25177

glaucous

/ˈɡlɔː.kəs/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
glauco
Of a pale grey or bluish-green, especially when covered with a powdery residue.
I realised I was the only shopper in that rather eerie place where I moved about fishlike, in a glaucous aquarium […]
[…] inside you could see the wires and cables that ran aft to the rudder and elevators and the cracked and curled and sunblacked leather of the seats and in their tarnished nickel…