flowerpot red

English

Noun

flowerpot red (countable and uncountable, plural flowerpot reds)

A matte terracotta red colour.
- 1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, OCLC 1029993343:
  His skin was of a rich flower-pot red from sun and wind.

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