leather-colored
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Perianth.—Pipe-shaped; the lobes of the lip leather-colored within.
From The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits by Parsons, Mary Elizabeth
She had a skin somewhat the color of leather, and wore a leather-colored dress, gold beads, a brass-topped comb, and gold ear-drops, like upside down exclamation points.
From Aunt Madge's Story by May, Sophie
I hated to leave her to the leather-colored wife of the old gardener, and lingered until the sharp voice came from the distant house-door, calling, 'Veel-hel-meeny,' as the twelve-o'clock bell summoned the Community to dinner.
From Solomon by Woolson, Constance Fenimore
Very beautiful the town-bred “schoolma’am” looked to those grimy, sweaty fellows, superb fellows physically, too, with bare red arms and leather-colored faces.
From The Arena Volume 4, No. 20, July, 1891 by Flower, B. O. (Benjamin Orange)
Such a beautiful brute!' her gray eyes suddenly flashed so powerfully upon me from under her bushy, black brows, that the whole withered, leather-colored face seemed ten years younger.
From A Divided Heart and Other Stories by Heyse, Paul
