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Definitions

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Of the color of liver; hepatic; of the color called liver-color; said especially of ceramic ware, as a certain variety of old Chinese porcelain and its imitations.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. Having a color like liver; dark reddish brown.

WordNet 3.0

  1. adj. having a reddish-brown color

Examples

  • “Jace cried out and Brydon nearly dropped the bow in surprise as the liver-colored horse slid to a stop some distance away.”

    The Gauntlet Thrown Chapter Thirty Six

  • “Sharon turned and bent to pick it up as Ridge slowed the liver-colored chestnut gelding into a long-striding walk.”

    Simon & Schuster: Western Man

  • “Its scrambling hooves kicked back sprays of water, showering the liver-colored chestnut and its rider.”

    Simon & Schuster: Western Man

  • “But most were gathered in a noisy, roiling pack just in front of the room, some leaping so high it was possible to hear their yellow canines tearing at the air, and to look down their liver-colored throats.”

    Simon & Schuster: Here Comes Another Lesson

  • “She was content to loll on the braided rug with the dogs, two liver-colored pointers who would lick the dried formula off her face.”

    The Nervous Breakdown

  • “The liver-colored stuff that came with the house when they bought it is gone.”

    Excerpt: City of the Sun by David Levien

  • “A liveried pug-ugly held the car door for them, ushering them toward the entrance where a toady in a liver-colored waistcoat made notations on a clipboard.”

    Simon & Schuster: Blood Lite II: Overbite

  • “While the sun lowered through the curtains, she sketched the sleeping Mrs. Harmon in unsparing detail: the liver-colored spots on her neck; her hands, with their knotty whorls for knuckles.”

    Simon & Schuster: Tell us we’re home

  • “Three people sat in our compartment: two women and a man in an ill-fitting, liver-colored suit who leaped up as we came in.”

    Simon & Schuster: Dreaming in French

  • “As for the interior, there were spongy displays of liver-colored carpet intermittently abolishing the glare of varnished, resounding floors; an immense modernistic living-room couch covered in nubby fabric interwoven with glittery strands of silver metal; a breakfast alcove featuring a banquette upholstered in blue-and-white plastic.”

    Remembering Truman Capote

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