Snuff colored; of a greyish to yellowish brown.
1The Chinaman's yellow face was impassive, his snuff-brown eyes quite blank.
2Then the voice of the snuff-brown secretary summoned her.
3And she had tied her hair with a snuff-brown ribbon which was very unbecoming to her.
4And there came a priest, who was a sub-lieutenant, out of a wood of snuff-brown shadows and half-veiled trunks.
5She put them both away and instead brought out an ugly pattern of snuff-brown stuff, bought years before and never used.