fawn-coloured

• “Sandbrook notes that the 70s in Britain have become "synonymous with the colour brown", which is certainly how I recall them: Vesta instant curries, Watneys Red Barrel, faux-velvet wallpaper, fawn-coloured nylon sheets.”

  The Guardian: State of Emergency: The Way We Were: Britain, 1970-1974 by Dominic Sandbrook

• “So the nasturtiums of Henri Fantin-Latour are hot-headed and impatient to rise to the fawn-coloured skies; while those of that highly intelligent and overlooked impressionist Gustav Caillebotte are veined and shy and persuasively wayward.”

  The Guardian: Impressionist Gardens; Another World: Dalí, Magritte, Miró and the Surrealists

• “Behind the Riley was Sergeant Yellich's fawn-coloured Escort, modest by comparison, and behind that was the police car with the blue flashing light on its roof.”

  Fictionaut: The Devil's Bedpost

• “Suddenly they saw what appeared to be cat-like beast with a black face, fawn-coloured body and busy, black tail just 200 yards away.”

  Archive 2007-02-01

• “She nodded agreement, picked up her scarlet bag and wrapped a long fawn-coloured scarf round her shoulders.”

  The Dreaming Void

• “Huge fawn-coloured eyes peered innocently out of the shadows, projecting a girlish innocence complemented by a perpetual ingénue effervescence into the gaiafield.”

  The Dreaming Void

• “All fawn-coloured stallions, sleek — their manes to their knees, their tails to their hoofs ....”

  A Desperate Character

• “He said: "He says: A fawn-coloured heifer, pure and rich in tone, the admiration of beholders!”

  IRAN IS ON THE TABLE (THE CHOPPING BLOCK!)

• “And if Bogey had ever come to London, which was against his principles, this was undoubtedly the outfit he would have selected: a mangled go-anywhere, wash-it-yourself, fawn-coloured tropical suit with a Fair Isle sleeveless pullover and buckskin shoes with the nap worn off.”

  the mission song

• “A woman had come out in a cream-coloured frock, and was moving away under a fawn-coloured parasol.”

  In Chancery

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