Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The normal color of the skin of a white person; pale carnation or pinkish; the color of the cheek of a healthy white child.

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Examples

  • A long collar of flesh-color crepe was used for the front, coming down in a V.

    Archive 2005-09-01 2005

  • A long collar of flesh-color crepe was used for the front, coming down in a V.

    Distinctive Dress 2005

  • Bunch medium, loose, shouldered; berry very large, oblong, pale flesh-color; skin thin; pulp tender; few seeds, separating freely from the pulp; sweet, vinous and juicy; quality very good.

    The Cultivation of The Native Grape, and Manufacture of American Wines George Husmann

  • Bunches small, but compact, shouldered; berry small; white at the East; pale flesh-color here; round, sweet, and without pulp; skin very thin.

    The Cultivation of The Native Grape, and Manufacture of American Wines George Husmann

  • Their only covering is a girdle round the loins; they have been painted flesh-color, with black hair and beards; the moulding of the pedestal and the baskets on their heads were in imitation of gold; and the pedestal itself, as well as the wall behind them and the niches for the reception of the clothes of the bathers, were colored to resemble red porphyry.

    Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life

  • Bunch medium, compact, shouldered; berry full medium, oval, flesh-color, with a beautiful lilac bloom; very sweet, pulpy and foxy.

    The Cultivation of The Native Grape, and Manufacture of American Wines George Husmann

  • Bunch small, compact, and generally shouldered; berry below medium, round; skin thin, of a beautiful flesh-color, covered with a lilac bloom; very translucent; pulp sweet and tender, vinous and delicious; wood very firm; short-jointed; somewhat difficult to propagate, though not so much so as Norton's Virginia.

    The Cultivation of The Native Grape, and Manufacture of American Wines George Husmann

  • The painting which makes fortunes is not the worthy representation of worthy subjects; French boudoir paintings take the place of representations of what is grand in history or beautiful in legend; Wilhems and his satin dresses, Bourgereau with his knack at flesh-color, have driven out of memory the noble treatment of great themes by Ary Scheffer and Paul Delaroche; Kaulbach is eclipsed by

    The Education of American Girls Anna Callender Brackett

  • I'll hold shades of yellow and green and flesh-color up to my face to see which brings out the right tints.

    Emma McChesney and Co. Edna Ferber 1926

  • Pink grasses which became distinctly flesh-color at maturity grew in abundance, and the stalks of most of the flowering plants were of this same peculiar hue.

    The Moon Maid 1923

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