leather-colored
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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
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
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)
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
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
