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He chose a pair the color of feuillemort, quickly slipped them on, put on a pair of buttoned shoes, donned the mouse grey suit which was checquered with a lava gray and dotted with black, placed a small hunting cap on his head and threw a blue raincoat over him.— Against the Grain
Maid's colour was _feuillemort_.— The Life of Joan of Arc, Vol. 1 and 2
It is pleasing to note in this list that not only the garments and stuffs, but the very colors named, have an antique sound; and we read in other inventories of such tints as philomot (feuillemort), gridolin— Customs and Fashions in Old New England
It is the archeus, or prime colour, of the tertiary _citrine_; characterises in like manner the endless number of semi-neutral colours called _brown_, and enters largely into the complex hues termed buff, bay, tawny, tan, dan, dun, drab, chestnut, roan, sorrel, hazel, auburn, isabela, fawn, feuillemort, &c.— Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists
Brown comprises the hues called dun, hazel, auburn, feuillemort, mort d'ore, &c.; several of which have been already mentioned as allied to the tertiary colours.— Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists

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