dust-colored

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dust-colored (comparative more dust-colored, superlative most dust-colored)

  1. Of a dull, pale, brownish color.
    • 1865, Charles Dickens, Our Mutual Friend:
      In the weak eyes of Venus, and in every reddish dust-colored hair in his shock of hair, there was a marked distrust of Wegg and an alertness to fly at him on perceiving the smallest occasion.