higher-colored

Updated: May 29, 2025

Yet I was determined to suspend all judgment, even after I could see that she was making no particular effort to meet me half-way, though she did acknowledge that Dinkie, in his best bib and tucker, was a "dawling" and even proclaimed that his complexion due, of course, to the floor-shellac and coal-oil reminded her very much of the higher-colored English children.

Arthur Stringer - The Prairie Mother