mackerel-hued

Updated: June 9, 2025

Then the bishops, though a little monotonous, must be agreeable to their flocks; while the hunting dogs, and pugs, and kittens, and monks, and Venetian girls la blonde et la brune and the Highland rivers of the colour of porter "with a head on it," and the mackerel-hued sea, and the marble, and the martyrs, and the Mediterranean they are all dear to various classes of our teeming population.

Andrew Lang - Lost Leaders