Sentence:  There was an air of blindness in her <WSD>gray</WSD> eyes , the startled horse look that ultimately comes to some women who are born at the end of an ancestral line long since divorced from money-making and which , besides , has kept its estate intact . 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  used to signify the Confederate forces in the American Civil War (who wore grey uniforms)