snuff-colored
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Some of the male staff members wear the black or snuff-colored dress of "lay preachers"; some of the women still affect traditional white "prayer caps"; all work for mere subsistence wages.
From Time Magazine Archive
There he became well known for his snuff-colored suits and the atomizer he carried for colds and hay fever.
From Time Magazine Archive
He wore a red silk waistcoat under a snuff-colored coat with silver buttons, a starched linen shirt, and black breeches.
From "Chains" by Laurie Halse Anderson
It was difficult, even for a person as blind as she considered her sister Maria, to mistake that snuff-colored, drawn silk bonnet, ornamented with a huge bow in front of pale blue ribbon.
From The Honorable Miss A Story of an Old-Fashioned Town by F. Earl Christy
She wore a shapeless, snuff-colored gown, very loose and only slightly gathered at the waist.
From Paul Patoff by F. Marion (Francis Marion) Crawford
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