snuff-colored
Example Sentences
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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
There he became well known for his snuff-colored suits and the atomizer he carried for colds and hay fever.
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
The snuff-colored station and the woman in the black hood slipped away, and were seen no more.
From Bressant by Hawthorne, Julian
Soon a slight, sallow man of about 43 appeared, wearing an old-fashioned stovepipe hat and a shabby suit of snuff-colored garments.
From Bidwell's Travels, from Wall Street to London Prison Fifteen Years in Solitude by Bidwell, Austin
