snuff-colored
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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
He wore a blue-checked pinafore, below which could be seen his short snuff-colored trousers and little bare feet.
From Randy and Her Friends by Brooks, Amy
The scattered leaves are first collected and subjected to powerful hydraulic pressure, from which they come out looking for all the world like a pile of snuff-colored brick.
From The Galaxy, April, 1877 Vol. XXIII.—April, 1877.—No. 4. by Various
