self-colored

White cats to be really valuable should have blue eyes (without deafness); black cats should have yellow eyes; other cats should have pea-green eyes, or in some cases, as in the brown, self-colored eyes.

Concerning Cats My Own and Some Others Helen M. Winslow

With small checks and narrow, self-colored stripes the effect is different, causing the texture to appear only shaded and not destroying the unity.

Textiles and Clothing Kate Heintz Watson

The black and white, yellow and white, blue and white, and in fact, any self-colored and white cat is a mixture of the other breeds.

Concerning Cats My Own and Some Others Helen M. Winslow

"Self-colored cats" are entirely of one color, which may vary in different cats, but must never be mixed in the same cat, nor even shaded into a lighter tone on the animal; and whether this color be black, blue, red, or yellow, the self-colored cat should have a rich deep tint.

Concerning Cats My Own and Some Others Helen M. Winslow

Very handsome self-colored bouquets can be arranged by giving a finish of the complementary shade.

The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 2, August, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Various

There is also a fine short-haired cat coming from Russia, usually self-colored.

Concerning Cats My Own and Some Others Helen M. Winslow

Give me a sunny garden patch in the golden springtime, when the trees are picking out their new gowns, in all the various self-colored delicate grays and greens -- strange how beautiful they are, in the same old unchanging styles, isn't it?

Home Vegetable Gardening — a Complete and Practical Guide to the Planting and Care of All Vegetables, Fruits and Berries Worth Growing for Home Use 1930

A grey, self-colored carpet covered the floor, and on one of the chests stood a miniature bronze copy of the Faun of Praxiteles.

The Grey Room Eden Phillpotts 1911

A trap-door it was, of huge dimensions, almost exactly covered by the self-colored square; but at each side a tongue of linoleum had been left loose for lifting it; and the lamp had scarcely been replaced upon the counter when the bulk of the floor leaned upright in one piece against the opposite wall.

Stingaree 1893

And where the plain linoleum ended, but where the overlapping border covered the floor, the planks were sawn through and through down one side of the central and self-colored square.

Stingaree 1893