old gold

a color ranging in hue from medium yellow to light olive brown.

Origin of old gold

First recorded in 1875–80

Fat Reuben's little chubby girl came, with golden face and old-gold hair, faithful and solemn.

The Upward Path |Various
The sun-tanned farmer father wore a suit of old-gold embossed velvet and a purple scarf was wound about his waist.

The Fortunate Isles |Mary Stuart Boyd
She wrapped herself in her old-gold silk blanket, and turned to watch the sea.

A Singular Life |Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
The “parlor” is provided with a complete set of neat, old-gold satin furniture, puffed at its angles with peacock-colored plush.

Worldly Ways and Byways |Eliot Gregory

That fellow is gorgeous with his seal-brown coat and old-gold vest; he is certainly a swell fish.

Harper's Young People, June 28, 1881 |Various

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