snuff-colored
Example Sentences
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There he became well known for his snuff-colored suits and the atomizer he carried for colds and hay fever.
From Time Magazine Archive
Some of the male staff members wear the black or snuff-colored dress of "lay preachers"; some of the women still affect traditional white "prayer caps"; all work for mere subsistence wages.
From Time Magazine Archive
He wore a red silk waistcoat under a snuff-colored coat with silver buttons, a starched linen shirt, and black breeches.
From "Chains" by Laurie Halse Anderson
I meant to get new curtains for my back parlor, heavy snuff-colored moreen, going a great bargain, but I had to buy the dress instead.
From The Honorable Miss A Story of an Old-Fashioned Town by Christy, F. Earl
At exactly half-past three he came out of his lodging, wearing his cocked hat and long, snuff-colored coat, and walked.
From Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great Philosophers, Volume 8 by Hubbard, Elbert
