leather-colored

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Perianth.—Pipe-shaped; the lobes of the lip leather-colored within.

From The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits by Parsons, Mary Elizabeth

Then a leather-colored mountain of a back heaved itself up through the smother and a colossal form, that would make the hugest elephant a pigmy, came ponderously forth upon the beach.

From In the Morning of Time by Roberts, Charles George Douglas, Sir

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

Very beautiful the town-bred "schoolma'am" looked to those grimy, sweaty fellows, superb fellows too, physically, with bare red arms and leather-colored faces.

From Other Main-Travelled Roads by Garland, Hamlin

His chain was now taken by a different sort of man; a very lean, spare, hard-bitten little man, with bright dark eyes and a leather-colored face.

From Jan A Dog and a Romance by Rockwell, Norman