dull-complexioned

Updated: May 3, 2025

Musset, after their first meeting, describes her, to whom he at a subsequent period alludes as femme a l'oeil sombre, thus: She is very beautiful; she is the kind of woman I like brown, pale, dull-complexioned with reflections as of bronze, and strikingly large-eyed like an Indian. I have never been able to contemplate such a countenance without inward emotion.

Frederick Niecks - Frederick Chopin, as a Man and Musician — Volume 2

"They say it's real good. Addie Green's been reading it." Flora wore a bright blue cambric dress and a brown straw hat. Her figure was stout and high-shouldered, her dull-complexioned face full of placid force.

Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman - Jane Field: A Novel