reddish-tan
Example Sentences
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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
There they were, at last! two reddish-tan, shy creatures—a doe and a half-grown fawn—stepping mincingly down to the brook to drink.
From Dwellers in Arcady The Story of an Abandoned Farm by Fogarty, Thomas
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 Burgess, Thornton W. (Thornton Waldo)
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 Roberts, Charles George Douglas, Sir
