There were wrought-iron railings on the upper floor windows, and wrought-iron handles on the screens on both floors, all painted the same dusty shade of green.

Ralph Funicello's austere but remarkably mutable tiered set is a dusty shade of black, while Mark Bennett's music makes sure we hear the chimes at midnight from the beginning.

We stood in the dusty shade and watched them, with casual skill, latch the Monica D. to the wharf.

The huge china cabinet was crowded with old patterned bone china; and there were a few huge lamps with dim bulbs beneath dusty shades.

The sun slid below the mountain peaks that surrounded the mesas on all sides and the sky faded slowly to a dustier shade of blue.

Red and black pigment at the extremities remains largely unchanged, but on the body, black pigment is diluted to slate and red pigment is diluted to a dustier shade.

Chiffons are printed with delicate flowers in dusty tone-on-tone shades of sand and rose or old-fashioned ivory and black.

Lands' End Inc., for instance, knows that many of its customers prefer brighter colors, rather than the dusty shades that now seem popular, said Andrea Sapon, a manager in the brand integrity group of the mail-order clothing company.

Her mouth was a dusty purple shade.

Here he lit an oil lamp of antique fashion, with a dusty, painted shade, and left me alone with the dustier volumes and furniture.