鈍色にびいろ

noun, noun which may take the genitive case particle 'no'

dark gray; dark grey

A traditional Japanese color name for a dark, subdued gray. Often used in literary or aesthetic contexts.

• 彼かれは鈍色にびいろのスーツを着きていた。

  He was wearing a dark gray suit.

• 空そらは鈍色にびいろに曇くもっていた。

  The sky was overcast in a dull gray.

noun

donjiki (clerical dress)

Only with reading どんじき

A specific term for a type of clerical robe, read only as どんじき. Rare outside of historical or religious contexts.

• 古こ文ぶん書しょには「鈍どん色じき」を僧そう衣いの一いっ種しゅとして記しるしている。

  Old documents record 鈍色 as a type of monk's robe.