leather-colored
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The rough calcareous base of the plasmodiocarp might be considered as either all columella or all hypothallus, with the upper surface leather-colored.
From The Myxomycetes of the Miami Valley, Ohio by Morgan, A. P. (Andrew Price)
I hated to leave her to the leather-colored wife of the old gardener, and lingered until the sharp voice came from the distant house-door, calling, 'Veel-hel-meeny,' as the twelve-o'clock bell summoned the Community to dinner.
From Solomon by Woolson, Constance Fenimore
The wild Irishman of them all is the great crested flycatcher, a large, leather-colored or sandy-complexioned bird that prowls through the woods, uttering its harsh, uncanny note and waging fierce warfare upon its fellows.
From Birds and Poets : with Other Papers by Burroughs, John
Such a beautiful brute!' her gray eyes suddenly flashed so powerfully upon me from under her bushy, black brows, that the whole withered, leather-colored face seemed ten years younger.
From A Divided Heart and Other Stories by Heyse, Paul
The head not only reappeared, but on a towering leather-colored column of a neck it shot straight into the air to a height of twenty feet.
From In the Morning of Time by Roberts, Charles George Douglas, Sir
