flesh-colored
adjective
: having the color of a person's skin
a rash that appears as flesh-colored bumps
also, dated, usually offensive : having a tan or beige color
Note: This use of flesh-colored is considered to be offensive as it assumes that the color of a white person's skin (see white entry 1 sense 2a) is the norm.
Word History
First Known Use
1611, in the meaning defined above
- frowardness
- frowardnesses
- frower
- frown
- frown (at or on)
- frown (on or upon)
- frown at or on
- frown on
- frown on or upon
- frown on/upon
- frown upon
- frowned
- frowned (at or on)
- frowned (on or upon)
- frowned at or on
- frowned on
- frowned on or upon
- frowned upon
- frowner
- frowners
- frowning
- frowning (at or on)
- frowning (on or upon)
- frowning at or on
- frowning on