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)

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)

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

Grandfather Warren was a little, lean, leather-colored man.

From The Morgesons by Stoddard, Elizabeth

But it contained a little figure that he readily recognized; a boy about fourteen years old, who wore a high collar, a stiff cravat, a leather-colored livery jacket, and knee-breeches of the same material.

From The Children of the World by Heyse, Paul