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Buff-coloured   /bəf-kˈələrd/   Listen
Buff-coloured

adjective
1.
Having a buff color.  Synonym: buff-colored.






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"Buff-coloured" Quotes from Famous Books



... wheels six yards in circumference, with shafts sixteen feet long, and drawn by mules bearing negro postilions in jack-boots—lead the way. The equestrians follow at a jog-trot; the extreme tips of their buff-coloured shoes lightly touching the stirrups; their knees firmly pressed against the saddles; their figures bolt upright and immovable. Then come the carts with shady awnings of palm leaves, drawn by oxen with yokes fastened to the points of their horns. The drivers ...
— The Pearl of the Antilles, or An Artist in Cuba • Walter Goodman

... through wisps of rising mist. We are coming to a village on the bank, palms and trees behind it, and a white pagoda spire rising from them, and one in gold above the village. The cottage roofs are of shingle, buff-coloured and grey, with a silvery sheen. People are coming down the dried mud-bank and across the sand to meet us, red lacquered trays of fruit and vegetables on their heads, and some with their baggage on their heads—their clothes of most ...
— From Edinburgh to India & Burmah • William G. Burn Murdoch



Words linked to "Buff-coloured" :   colored, colorful, coloured



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