high-coloured

British  

adjective

1. (of the complexion) deep red or purplish; florid

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Example Sentences

The story is brilliantly revealed through many overlapping accounts, tales told from different points of view in the Southern tradition like stories on the porch but all washed in the same, high-coloured prose.

From The Guardian • Jan. 22, 2013

He was a fresh, high-coloured boy, whose features showed even now a slight forecast of General Bolingbroke's awful redness.

From The Romance of a Plain Man by Glasgow, Ellen Anderson Gholson

Esm� looked shrewdly at the man, wondered what women saw in the sloe-black eyes, the high-coloured cheeks; wondered why girls had made fools of themselves for him.

From The Oyster by Peer

And, as he waited, in came an old acquaintance in all his high-coloured and picturesque splendour––Percival DeRue Hannington.

From The Spoilers of the Valley by Watson, Robert

So direct an invitation was, of course, not to be refused by Hal of Hadnock; and he thanked her with high-coloured gallantry for her consideration.

From Agincourt The Works of G. P. R. James, Volume XX by James, G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford)