leather-colored
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The rough calcareous base of the plasmodiocarp might be considered as either all columella or all hypothallus, with the upper surface leather-colored.
From The Myxomycetes of the Miami Valley, Ohio by A. P. (Andrew Price) Morgan
All the books were leather-colored except one; that was bright red, and was called the Ladies' Album.
From Shapes that Haunt the Dusk by William Dean Howells
Then a leather-colored mountain of a back heaved itself up through the smother and a colossal form, that would make the hugest elephant a pigmy, came ponderously forth upon the beach.
From In the Morning of Time by Sir Charles George Douglas Roberts
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 B. O. (Benjamin Orange) Flower
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 Sophie May
