[f. ASH sb.2 + -EN.]

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  1.  Of ashes. Also fig.

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1850.  Mrs. Browning, Poems, I. 349. Wait soul, until thine ashen garments fall!

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1879.  Tourgee, Fool’s Errand, xlvi. 350. A Sodom-like fruitage of ashen words.

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1882.  Pall Mall Gaz., 25 Oct., 2/2. The effects of the ashen shower were not instantaneous.

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  2.  Ash-colored, whitish-grey, deadly pale.

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1808.  Scott, Marm., VI. xiv. The flush of rage O’ercame the ashen hue of age.

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1875.  Longf., Summer Day by Sea. Yon little cloud of ashen gray and gold.

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