Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Of the color of cane; straw-colored.

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Examples

  • Sir Thomas is dressed in ruff and doublet; white shoes with roses in them; and has a peaked yellow, or, as Master Slender would say, “a cane-colored beard.”

    The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon 2002

  • The cane-colored floor cloth, corresponding with the oaken walls, struck me as the harmonious design of an artistic mind.

    Autobiography of a female slave, 1857

  • Adjoining the parlor was the dining-room, with its oaken walls, and cane-colored floor-cloth.

    Autobiography of a female slave, 1857

  • The latter was shod with low shoes, garters united the stockings to the light-blue breeches, the waistcoat was cane-colored, his sash light green, and jaunty shoulder-knots, lappets, and rows of buttons ornamented the carmelite jacket.

    First Love (Little Blue Book #1195) And Other Fascinating Stories of Spanish Life Seraf��n Est��banez Calder��n 1833

  • Sir Thomas is dressed in ruff and doublet, white shoes with roses in them, and has a peaked yellow, or, as Master Slender would say, "a cane-colored beard."

    The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon Washington Irving 1821

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