liver-colored
- adjective
- /ˈlɪvərˌkʌlərd/
- The dog had a liver-colored coat that gleamed in the sunlight.
- liver-colored lips
Examples
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He was already past fifty then, though the only thing you could see of aging was on the back of his hands, which were liver-colored, lined with wrinkles, anticipatory masks showing what his face would be like in twenty years.
Fiction book (2000) -
She leered at me and stuck out a liver-colored tongue.
Fiction book (2002) -
There was a Red Star Market, an auto-body shop, and two churches built of the same liver-colored brick, one for the Methodists and one a United Church of Christ.
Fiction book (1995) -
She wore no jewelry, and her only makeup was two quick smears of liver-colored lipstick.
Fiction book (1999) -
Even before Ian himself came into view, however, mounted on that enormous liver-colored stallion Jake had written her about, she knew she couldn't be so lucky.
Fiction book (1994) -
Shermie's eating chopped liver on a cracker, and his hand shakes as he pulls it toward his liver-colored lips.
Fiction book (2002) -
She painted her nails with a liver-colored polish for a bold look.
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The sofa was upholstered in a rich, liver-colored fabric that added warmth to the room.
Synonyms
Having a medium to dark color like wood or tanned skin
A brown color with a hint of red
A reddish-brown or orange-brown color like old metal
A red-brown color like copper
A brown color with a touch of red
A brown color with a little red that often appears in hair or feathers
A brown color with a slight red tint
A color like brown mixed with red
A red color with a brown-orange hint like rust
A reddish brown color like rust
A brown color with a red tint like old metal left outside
A reddish-brown colour often seen in animal fur or leather
A reddish-brown hair color like copper
A dark brown red like dried blood
A brown color with a red-orange tone
Having a reddish-brown color like rust or containing iron
How Reddish-Brown
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Liver-colored comes from the word liver, a body part, and was used to mean 'the color of a liver'. So, liver-colored means a 'reddish-brown' color, like the fur or fabric in the examples.