1The colour of, or a colour resembling that of, a person's skin.
men with different flesh colours
skin tones differ, so this lipliner might not be the perfect flesh colour for everyone
1.1A light brownish pink.
肉色
go for a beige base rather than a flesh colour or baby pink
Example sentencesExamples
The house has a faded flesh color to it from the outside.
His arm had stopped swelling soon after Claudius had bathed him and gradually took on a flesh color.
Her three fourths length sleeves covered most of her arm, but under the thin cloth seemed to be a pink flesh color, not metallic blue.
Slowly the face began to appear and take on a flesh color.
By degrees the highest distant summits assumed a delicate, pink flesh color, and the red sun appeared behind the ponderous giants of the Bernese Alps.
One volume is covered with a splash of flesh color, giving it a weirdly anthropomorphic quality.
She wears Willa Kim's unitard of gorgeous green blending to flesh color on the lower torso and legs, and a small jeweled green headpiece.
Instead, her skin was unmarked and was the same flesh color as the rest of her arm that hadn't been bruised in the first place.
It's a feat of engineering in a grimy flesh colour.
His face might have been painted by Lucien Freud; the flesh was, variously, yellow, grey, pink, green… any colour in fact but flesh colour.
Derivatives
flesh-coloured
adjectiveˈflɛʃˌkʌləd
Hitchcock shot the shower sequence in fragments, and it took seven days to shoot with Leigh wearing a flesh-coloured moleskin.
Example sentencesExamples
Now maybe I can toss out those flesh-colored threadbare drawers of his that always give me a fright.
The night sky had turned flesh-colored, reflecting snow.
I would love to know if there is a company that makes flesh-coloured cotton socks.
She will wear a flesh-coloured two piece costume.
Daddy was similarly smothered in dead-of-night shades, inky black tattoos obscuring any flesh-coloured parts and only copious body piercings to distinguish him from the road surface.
And who could forget the famous flesh-coloured, beaded dress worn by Marilyn Monroe when serenading ‘Mister President’ John Kennedy in 1962?
Wearing a flesh-coloured foam helmet that gives her the proportions of a newborn, Lee performs an uncanny imitation of a baby in this almost dialogue-free exploration of the mother-child bond.
An insider said: ‘She wasn't completely naked - she did wear flesh-coloured underwear to preserve her modesty.’
Current favourites include my gunmetal grey dress by Gucci, a flesh-coloured silk dress with a huge rose corsage by Yves St-Laurent Rive Gauche, and a fabulous pure white dress by Versace.