author, writer - writes (books or stories or articles or the like) professionally (for pay)

House of Tudor, Tudor - an English dynasty descended from Henry Tudor; Tudor monarchs ruled from Henry VII to Elizabeth I (from 1485 to 1603)

Queen of England - the sovereign ruler of England

national leader, solon, statesman - a man who is a respected leader in national or international affairs

organization, organisation - a group of people who work together

Army of the Confederacy, Confederate Army - the southern army during the American Civil War

achromatic color, achromatic colour - a color lacking hue; white or gray or black

ash gray, ash grey, silver gray, silver grey, silver - a light shade of gray

charcoal gray, charcoal grey, oxford gray, oxford grey, charcoal - a very dark gray color

dapple-gray, dapple-grey, dappled-gray, dappled-grey - gray with a mottled pattern of darker gray markings

iron-gray, iron-grey - the color of freshly broken cast iron

tattletale gray, tattletale grey - a grayish white

Davy's gray, iron blue, steel gray - slightly purplish or bluish dark gray

article of clothing, clothing, vesture, wear - a covering designed to be worn on a person's body

color, color in, colorise, colorize, colour in, colourise, colourize, colour - add color to; "The child colored the drawings"; "Fall colored the trees"; "colorize black and white film"

discolour, discolor, color, colour - change color, often in an undesired manner; "The shirts discolored"

achromatic - having no hue

old - (used especially of persons) having lived for a relatively long time or attained a specific age; especially not young; often used as a combining form to indicate an age as specified as in `a week-old baby'; "an old man's eagle mind"--William Butler Yeats; "his mother is very old"; "a ripe old age"; "how old are you?"

southern - in or characteristic of a region of the United States south of (approximately) the Mason-Dixon line; "southern hospitality"; "southern cooking"; "southern plantations"

intermediate - lying between two extremes in time or space or degree; "going from sitting to standing without intermediate pushes with the hands"; "intermediate stages in a process"; "intermediate stops on the route"; "an intermediate level"

cloudy - full of or covered with clouds; "cloudy skies"