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
It's mostly a sort of light, reddish-tan, a kind of pale russet.
From The Secret of the Ninth Planet by Wollheim, Donald Allen
P. 3-9 cm. gibbous, not polished, viscid, opaque, reddish-tan; g. arcuato-adfixed; s. 7-9 cm. fibrillose, shining, and like the flesh white; sp. ——. emollitus, Fr.
From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by Massee, George
P. 6-9 cm. exp. edge patent, golden-tawny or reddish-tan; g. adnato-decur. straw-colour then ochre; s. 10-17 cm. cylindric, yellowish-white, silky-viscid; sp. ——. collinitus, Fr.
From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by Massee, George
