Both Uses of
neutral
in
The House of Mirth
- Ruling the turbulent element called home was the vigorous and determined figure of a mother still young enough to dance her ball-dresses to rags, while the hazy outline of a neutral-tinted father filled an intermediate space between the butler and the man who came to wind the clocks.†
Chpt 1.3
- Seated under the cheerless blaze of the drawing-room chandelier—Mrs. Peniston never lit the lamps unless there was "company"—Lily seemed to watch her own figure retreating down vistas of neutral-tinted dulness to a middle age like Grace Stepney's.†
Chpt 1.9 *
Definition:
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(neutral as in: played at a neutral site) not favoring any side in a contest, war, disagreement, or other dispute