leather-colored
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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
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
Grandfather Warren was a little, lean, leather-colored man.
From The Morgesons by Stoddard, Elizabeth
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
Very beautiful the town-bred "school-ma'am" looked to those grimy, sweaty fellows, superb fellows, too, physically, with bare red arms and leather-colored faces.
From Prairie Folks by Garland, Hamlin
