pepper-and-salt

salt-and-pepper

pepper-and-salt (comparative more pepper-and-salt, superlative most pepper-and-salt)

1. Having a color pattern resembling many small speckles of black and white.
   • 1831, Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Romance and Reality, volume 2, page 127:

     She paused on the cleanest of steps; a lad in pepper-and-salt livery opened the door; and she entered the hall and an atmosphere of most savoury soup, where she seemed likely to remain...