mahogany-brown love

Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A reddish brown, the color of mahogany.

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Examples

  • Neither of the young men who hailed from Sikkim was older than twenty-five, and their mahogany-brown skin seemed yet unfamiliar with facial hair.

    The Thieves of Darkness Richard Doetsch 2010

  • Neither of the young men who hailed from Sikkim was older than twenty-five, and their mahogany-brown skin seemed yet unfamiliar with facial hair.

    The Thieves of Darkness Richard Doetsch 2010

  • Neither of the young men who hailed from Sikkim was older than twenty-five, and their mahogany-brown skin seemed yet unfamiliar with facial hair.

    The Thieves of Darkness Richard Doetsch 2010

  • Those with an appreciation of human beauty claimed that he was not particularly handsome, his face a touch asymmetrical, the skin rough and fleshy, while his thick mahogany-brown hair looked as if it was cut with a knife and his own strong hands.

    The Year's Best Science Fiction 23rd Annual Collection Dozois, Gardner 2006

  • The liver is enlarged, and a yellowish, mahogany-brown color.

    Common Diseases of Farm Animals R. A. Craig

  • It is furrowed like a tomato, and on the day after we received it the furrows opened and exposed three or four large mahogany-brown seeds embedded in hard pulp.

    Scientific American Supplement, No. 421, January 26, 1884 Various

  • Roast beef and Yorkshire, or roast pork and apple sauce, followed up by suet pudding and driven home, as it were, by a cup of mahogany-brown tea, have put you in just the right mood.

    Decline of the English Murder 1946

  • His mother's people could have been Nergalers; he had coarse black hair, a mahogany-brown skin, and red-brown, almost maroon, eyes.

    Space Viking H. Beam Piper 1934

  • Roast beef and Yorkshire, or roast pork and apple sauce, followed up by suet pudding and driven home, as it were, by a cup of mahogany-brown tea, have put you in just the right mood.

    Collected Essays 1900

  • Had I been drawing on the imaginative resources of the writers of romantic fiction -- and therefore naturally straining for dramatic effects, instead of chronicling the somewhat romantic happenings of my life as a slave, I should have closed with the preceding chapter, leaving the reader to wonder which the baby was -- blue blood or mongrel, magnolia-white or mahogany-brown, but such is not my purpose.

    The Story of a Slave. A Realistic Revelation of a Social Relation of Slave Times--Hitherto Unwritten--From the Pen of One Who Has Felt Both the Lash and the Caress of a Mistress No Author 1894

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