coffee-colored

[ kaw-fee-kuhl-erd, kof-ee- ]

adjective

1. having the medium-brown color of coffee mixed with cream or milk; moderately brown.

Word History and Origins

Origin of coffee-colored¹

First recorded in 1685–95

Example Sentences

The brown striated cliffs, the Seven Devils to the southeast and coffee-colored mounds closer to the bottom provided a beautiful vista.

From Seattle Times

Fetid, coffee-colored floodwaters, with plastic bags and bits of straw swirling around in the eddies, lapped at a street in Kherson, the regional capital, where rescuers staged a complete evacuation of a neighborhood cut off from the rest of the city by inundated streets.

From New York Times

Fetid, coffee-colored floodwaters, with plastic bags and bits of straw swirling in the eddies, lapped at streets in Kherson, a regional capital in southern Ukraine, where rescuers had evacuated a neighborhood cut off by inundated streets.

From New York Times

The contrast is stark: Soldiers slurp filthy, coffee-colored water out of a bucket on the front line, while diplomats and generals sip espresso from demitasses back home.

From Washington Post

So began a landmark legal challenge that would end up before the nine justices, argued by a 31-year-old lawyer with a coffee-colored beard and scruffy ponytail, Sebastian Graber, the husband of the sign-toting appellee, activist Mary T. Grace.

From Washington Post