french-crown-colour

Updated: June 7, 2025

I will discharge it in either your straw-coloured beard, your orange-tawny beard, your purple-in-grain beard, or your French-crown-colour beard, your perfect yellow Midsummer Night's Dream, Act I. Sc. 2. "What coloured beard comes next by the window?" "A black man's, I think." "I think a red: for that is most in fashion."

T. R. Swinburne - A Holiday in the Happy Valley with Pen and Pencil