leek-yellow

Updated: June 25, 2025

She wore a honey-coloured wadded robe, a rose-brown short-sleeved jacket, lined with the fur of the squirrel of two colours: the "gold and silver;" and a jupe of leek-yellow silk. Her whole costume was neither too new, neither too old, and displayed no sign of extravagance.

Xueqin Cao - Hung Lou Meng, or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel, Book I