reddish-tan
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Claydon’s home was a single-story cinderblock house painted a reddish-tan, similar to the red dirt in Lahaina.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 24, 2023
Image: Antonio Monclova GIBRALTAR—Jordi Rosell removes a thumbnail-size piece of reddish-tan bone from a sealed plastic bag, carefully places it under the stereomicroscope and invites me to have a look.
From Scientific American ● Sep. 18, 2012
The pileus is compact, convex, then expanded, even, rather viscid, reddish-tan, flesh yellowish.
From The Mushroom, Edible and Otherwise Its Habitat and its Time of Growth by Miron Elisha Hard
Their skins, very hairy in the case of the mature men, were of a reddish-tan color, paling to pink and cream in the children and younger women.
From In the Morning of Time by Sir Charles George Douglas Roberts
The sides and throat were a soft reddish-tan and on each side at the beginning of the bill was a black patch.
From The Burgess Bird Book for Children by Thornton W. (Thornton Waldo) Burgess
