dustcoloured

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1. alternativerareAlternative form of dust-colored.

   Mother Earth, at their devastating touch, falls into a death-like swoon — her green mantle overlaid by a dustcoloured shroud.

   1923, The Visva-bharati Quarterly - Volume 1, page 158

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   By giving away a dustcoloured cow, with a calf and a vessel of white brass for malking her, and covered with a piece of cloth, one acquires great honours in the region of the WindGod.

   2001, Om Nath Bimali, Ishvar Chandra, Manmatha Nath Dutt, Mahābhārata

   1840 Public promenade dress: short silk pelisse-robe, ornamented en tablier. Riding costume (as worn by Her Majesty) of brown cloth; black silk cravat; black beaver hat; white veil. Morning visiting dress of dustcoloured silk en demi-redingote (W)

   2013, C. Willett Cunnington, English Women's Clothing in the Nineteenth Century, →ISBN