fawn-coloured

Sandbrook notes that the 70s in Britain have become "synonymous with the colour brown", which is certainly how I recall them: Vesta instant curries, Watneys Red Barrel, faux-velvet wallpaper, fawn-coloured nylon sheets.

State of Emergency: The Way We Were: Britain, 1970-1974 by Dominic Sandbrook Francis Wheen 2010

So the nasturtiums of Henri Fantin-Latour are hot-headed and impatient to rise to the fawn-coloured skies; while those of that highly intelligent and overlooked impressionist Gustav Caillebotte are veined and shy and persuasively wayward.

Impressionist Gardens; Another World: Dalí, Magritte, Miró and the Surrealists 2010

Behind the Riley was Sergeant Yellich's fawn-coloured Escort, modest by comparison, and behind that was the police car with the blue flashing light on its roof.

The Devil's Bedpost 2010

Suddenly they saw what appeared to be cat-like beast with a black face, fawn-coloured body and busy, black tail just 200 yards away.

Archive 2007-02-01 2007

She nodded agreement, picked up her scarlet bag and wrapped a long fawn-coloured scarf round her shoulders.

The Dreaming Void Hamilton, Peter F. 2007

Huge fawn-coloured eyes peered innocently out of the shadows, projecting a girlish innocence complemented by a perpetual ingénue effervescence into the gaiafield.

The Dreaming Void Hamilton, Peter F. 2007

He said: "He says: A fawn-coloured heifer, pure and rich in tone, the admiration of beholders!"

IRAN IS ON THE TABLE (THE CHOPPING BLOCK!) News from Mad Plato 2006

And if Bogey had ever come to London, which was against his principles, this was undoubtedly the outfit he would have selected: a mangled go-anywhere, wash-it-yourself, fawn-coloured tropical suit with a Fair Isle sleeveless pullover and buckskin shoes with the nap worn off.

The mission song Le Carre, John, 1931- 2006

And if Bogey had ever come to London, which was against his principles, this was undoubtedly the outfit he would have selected: a mangled go-anywhere, wash-it-yourself, fawn-coloured tropical suit with a Fair Isle sleeveless pullover and buckskin shoes with the nap worn off.

the mission song Le Carre, John, 1931- 2006

All fawn-coloured stallions, sleek — their manes to their knees, their tails to their hoofs ....

A Desperate Character 2006