ash-colored vs pasty

ash-colored

adj
  • Of the color of ashes; pale grey. 

pasty

adj
  • pale, lacking colour, having a pallor 

  • Like paste, sticky. 

  • white-skinned 

noun
  • A type of seasoned meat and vegetable hand pie, usually of a semicircular shape. 

  • A small item of clothing that conceals little more than the nipple of a woman's breast, primarily worn by female exotic dancers. 

How often have the words ash-colored and pasty occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )