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 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)
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. 4-6 cm. tough, depressed, sinuate, reddish-tan, bristling with tufts of hairs; g. decur. narrow, crowded, pale buff; s. very short or obsolete, hirsute; sp.
From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by Massee, George
