leather-colored

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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

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

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)

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

The lean, aged, leather-colored woman, with shiny opaque black eyes, opened the door wider and silently ushered them into the house.

From The Brimming Cup by Fisher, Dorothy Canfield