leather-colored
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Very beautiful the town-bred “schoolma’am” looked to those grimy, sweaty fellows, superb fellows physically, too, with bare red arms and leather-colored faces.
From The Arena Volume 4, No. 20, July, 1891 by Flower, B. O. (Benjamin Orange)
The jolly little old leather-colored man who kept the bazaar winked at Sara as he brought out the buttons for Avrillia's inspection.
From The Garden of the Plynck by Minard, Florence
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
She had a skin somewhat the color of leather, and wore a leather-colored dress, gold beads, a brass-topped comb, and gold ear-drops, like upside down exclamation points.
From Aunt Madge's Story by May, Sophie
