What is "wine-colored"

Usage examples of "wine-colored".

A carroty redhead couldn’t have worn the color, but Faith’s hair was a dark, almost wine-colored red, and the knowledge that she looked good in the pink perked up her spirits.

With a hearty warmth, he wrung Ken Star’s hand—and then stepped back, his wine-colored eyes squinted fearfully.

She was disgusted with herself for falling to pieces the way she had, but when she had seen that dark red hair, such a rich color that it was almost wine-colored, her heart had almost stopped.

On his bed he laid out another new outfit, the white blouse embroidered with grapes and leaves, the short surcoat with cape sleeves belted in front with silver buckles, the wine-colored stockings.

The low branches broke up his silhouette, transforming his wine-colored shirt, black jacket and charcoal slacks into just a few more tints of darkness among the thickly layered shadows.

There was the wine-colored faver mark on the outside of his forearm, like the print of a rosebud cut in half.

There, in the dark hallway, unlit save for his wine-colored ceryll and the glowing crystals of the guards, Niall indicated the three rooms that had been set aside for the alleged traitors.

But none of it could have prepared him for the shock of what he saw in the wine-colored radiance of his mage-glow.

The gold torque, signifying her royal lineage, winked at her throat, barely visible beneath the rich wine-colored robes she wore to mark her status as a member of the Holy Mother's innermost circle of counselors.

She had faint scars along her jaw below the mutilated ear, and a wine-colored birthmark in the hollow of her throat, easy to see from this angle, but nothing evil in her face, no hidden hatreds or petty jealousies.

Pale-skinned and blue-eyed, hair so fair it's almost white, wine-colored lips, and round, full breasts with the veins running through them like a good cheese.

But the last of them, her hair streaked white on dark gray, pointed before she turned away, pointed into the wine-colored sky.

Chairs and settees of tufted, wine-colored leather stood before a huge reproduction of a rococo-revival desk, upon which rested a green-shaped oil lamp, a tarnished silver inkstand with quill pen, a fruitwood humidor, and an onyx ashtray overflowing with cigar butts.