Unobtrusive in his tunic of dove gray linen, Medlir had no words.

He wore drawers of soiled gray linen, nothing else.

Over this he had a black mackintosh; there were five belts strapped around his waist and a sort of grey linen nappy attached to the back of his trousers.

Over his face hung a cowl of grey linen, and through the eyelets his eyes gleamed like red coals.

Nancy Nelson, who owns the lecture agency bearing her name, has a vertically striped "fat" dress, gray linen with beige and black.

The grey linen was billowing above the dark evil-smelling scum, the gas plate was splattered with sponges of dried foam.

Standing, he turned around to see a young man wearing only a simple robe of gray linen watching him.

The tables were covered in gray linen with a fine black stripe, a pattern picked up and repeated on the menu covers and matchbooks and the aprons of the waiters.

White walls, a king bed, gray linens, an Italian desk light on a night table, more books, another painting by the same artist.

"We designed the gray linens in 1997, but it was premature," said Ms. Spets, who reintroduced the gray linens this year.