The legs of those who had been longest on the spot-probably several weeks in some instances-were of a deep nutty brown hue suffused with pink; after these a gradation of colour, light brown tinged with buff, pinkish buff and cream, like the Gloire de dijon rose; and so on to the delicate tender pink of the clover blossom; and, finally, the purest ivory white of the latest arrivals whose skins had not yet been caressed and coloured by sun and wind.
"Afoot in England"
W.H. Hudson
But that Sylvia Peplow was just the sort of girl men run after, like a big pale gloire-de-dijon rose all on one side, with pale golden wavy hair, and great big goggly blue eyes, looking as if she couldn't help it!
"Somehow Good"
William de Morgan
Soon came a complete rupture over the treatment by the pontifical authorities of two French bishops, Geay of Laval and Le Nordez of dijon.
"A History of the Third French Republic"
C. H. C. Wright