lemon-coloured

• “On one side float an alarming beast of a hat and a line of cocktail frocks, among them a lemon-coloured drop-waist shift and an exquisite black silk number that looks as if it has been made out of one unknotted bow.”

  The Guardian: The Real Thing; The Concise Dictionary of Dress

• “As I approached the green door set in the lemon-coloured walls of the house I sent out a prayer to the gods in the temples I had just passed.”

  Simon & Schuster: An Atlas of Impossible Longing

• “He ripped off his lemon-coloured vest and demanded to be given a friendly rapist of a roommate.”

  The Hulk Hogan Saga: Volume MCVII

• “Her bright eyes, brown hair, flowery bonnet, lemon-coloured gloves, and flush beauty, were like an irradiation into the apartment, which they in their gloom could hardly bear.”

  Life's Little Ironies

• “She sat, I may mention, in the cushioned basket-chair, the only comfortable chair in the room, and we sat on incredibly hard, horsehair things having antimacassars tied to their backs by means of lemon-coloured bows.”

  The Wheels of Chance: a bicycling idyll

• “The stalls were gorgeous with lemon-coloured slippers, stiff red shoes, scarlet boots with tops and tassels and hangings, which form part of the Bedawi dress.”

  The Romance of Isabel Lady Burton

• “When I went, I of course took off my boots at the entrance, and put on my lemon-coloured slippers, and I was always careful to be as respectful and as reverent as if I were in my own church, and to never forget to leave a trifle for the poor, and to give a substantial tip when I went out.”

  The Romance of Isabel Lady Burton

• “He wore varnished boots from the earliest period of youth, and had cambric handkerchiefs and lemon-coloured kid gloves, of the smallest size ever manufactured by Privat.”

  The History of Pendennis

• “His great hands (which can sprawl over half a piano, and produce those effects on the instrument for which he is celebrated) are encased in lemon-coloured kids, new, or cleaned daily.”

  Mens Wives

• “The next evening, while the sun was yet bright, a handsome new gig, with a lemon-coloured body and red wheels, was spinning westward along the level highway at the heels of a powerful mare.”

  Wessex Tales

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