dove-color

The former resembled the common barn-pigeon exactly, but are in fact gulls of beautiful and varied colors, mostly dove-color.

Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals David Widger

It is recorded that, in a tournament at the court of Burgundy in 1445, one of the knights received from his lady a sleeve of delicate dove-color, which he fastened on his left arm.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 107, September, 1866 Various

That dove-color always looks pretty on a girl, and I have only worn it once.

Molly Bawn Margaret Wolfe Hamilton

Paris way a slate-grey and dove-color lay spread out like a Turkish carpet, with a silvery band of mist where the river was, out of which the

Three Soldiers John Dos Passos 1933

The sun, but half risen, yet lingered on the wooded crest of the Gaspereau hills; while above hung a dappled sky of pink and pale amber and dove-color.

Earth's Enigmas A Volume of Stories Charles George Douglas Roberts 1901

"What sort of ground is this?" said London Bill, laying a finger on the cross-section drawing, where it was painted dove-color as showing the earth beneath the street; "is it clay or sand?"

The President A novel Alfred Henry Lewis 1885

Under a heaven of exquisitely tender blue, the whole smooth sea has a perfect luminous dove-color, -- the horizon being filled to a great height with greenish-golden haze, -- a mist of unspeakably sweet tint, a hue that, imitated in any aquarelle, would be cried out against as an impossiblity.

Two Years in the French West Indies Lafcadio Hearn 1877

The former resembled the common barn-pigeon exactly, but are in fact gulls of beautiful and varied colors, mostly dove-color.

The Memoirs of General W. T. Sherman, Volume I., Part 1 1855

The former resembled the common barn-pigeon exactly, but are in fact gulls of beautiful and varied colors, mostly dove-color.

Memoirs of Gen. William T. Sherman — Volume 1 1855

The former resembled the common barn-pigeon exactly, but are in fact gulls of beautiful and varied colors, mostly dove-color.

Memoirs of Gen. William T. Sherman — Complete 1855