gritty-looking

Updated: May 12, 2025

I forget whether I said that the perambulator was enamelled white not the kind of enamelling you do at home with Aspinall's and the hairs of the brush come out and it is gritty-looking, but smooth, like the handles of ladies very best lace parasols.

E. (Edith) Nesbit - The Wouldbegoods