ˈflesh-coloured, a.
Of the colour of flesh.
| 1703 tr. H. van Oosten's Dutch Gardener ii. lxix. 111 There are three sorts of common Pionies... Second, the Flesh Colour'd. 1752 Sir J. Hill Hist. Anim. 95 The little flesh-coloured actinia. 1774 Goldsm. Hist. Earth V. i. xi. 115 The head and neck are without feathers covered with a flesh-coloured skin on the upper part. 1840 J. Baxter Libr. Pract. Agric. (ed. 4) I. 177 The flesh-coloured clover. 1861 Miss Pratt Flower Pl. IV. 93 Flesh-coloured Speedwell. 1966 J. S. Cox Illustr. Dict. Hairdressing 58/2 Flesh-coloured hair net. |