pork-fat-colored

Updated: May 4, 2025

A third bailiff guarded the door of the jury-room; and in addition to these there were present a court clerk small, pale, candle-waxy, with colorless milk-and-water eyes, and thin, pork-fat-colored hair and beard, who looked for all the world like an Americanized and decidedly decrepit Chinese mandarin and a court stenographer.

Theodore Dreiser - The Financier, a novel