fairy-coloured

Updated: January 25, 2026

Beside us on the lawn are people in all kinds of dresses, soldiers in uniform and the gold dull in the shadows, ladies in fairy-coloured ball dresses, and Parsi men in frock-coats and shiny black hats, their women in most delicate veils over European dresses.

W. G. (William Gordon) Burn Murdoch - From Edinburgh to India & Burmah