Definition of Heather mixture

1. Noun. Interwoven yarns of mixed colors producing muted greyish shades with flecks of color.

Exact synonyms: Heather
Generic synonyms: Color, Coloring, Colour, Colouring

Lexicographical Neighbors of Heather Mixture

heathenishness
heathenism
heathenisms
heathenize
heathenized
heathenizes
heathenizing
heathenly
heathenries
heathenry
heathens
heather
heather-bell
heather-mixture
heather bell
heather mixture (current term)
heathered
heatherlike
heathers
heathery
heathfowl
heathier
heathiest
heathland
heathlands
heathless
heathlike
heaths
heathy
heating

Literary usage of Heather mixture

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris (1861)
"Tom's interlocutor put his hands in the pockets of his heather mixture shooting-coat, ... The man in the heather mixture had now shot his last bolt, ..."

2. Punch by Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman (1874)
"BENJAMIN'S Heather-Mixture suits. Such as they are we print them, with the unsatisfactory consolation that if the notes are bad they are like the sport and ..."

3. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1890)
"Griffith's mixture, a mixture containing Iron carbonate ; the mistura ferri composite of the United States Pharmacopoeia.—heather mixture. Same as heather*. ..."

4. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1892)
"Even the sameness of colour vanished then : the heather mixture of purple and white, brown, yellow, and green, so insignificant in the distance, ..."

5. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1889)
"With other things there was a light heather mixture suit,^E which I have worn for walking continually. The petty which I occasionally feel, bereft of mi— ..."

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