Usage examples (3)

• Properly cured meat is salt but not too salt, of a deep blackish-red, and when sliced thin, partly translucent, also of an indescribable savoriness.
• (I'm partial to the Lockheed SR-71B Blackbird, a blackish-red spy plane that can fly 2,200 m.p.h.)
• Then the old dame rose, and while the girl, panting for breath, took the roasted ducks from the spit, the former, with her own trembling hands, drew from the little chest which...