butternut colors

Literary analysis:

In literature, the term “butternut” is often used as a color adjective to evoke a warm, earthy tone that falls between soft yellows and deep browns. Writers employ it to describe clothing—from trousers and suits to jeans—thereby lending characters an air of rustic charm and understated elegance. For instance, authors depict figures in “clothing of a butternut color” [1] or reference “butternut trousers” and “butternut suits” to create vivid, memorable images [2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8]. This recurrent use of butternut as a color not only enriches the visual palette of a narrative but also subtly connects characters to natural, autumnal hues.

Amongst the dippers, conspicuous by his benevolent face and clothing of a butternut color, was the Great Dipper himself, directing operations.
— from Tales of the Chesapeake by George Alfred Townsend
I'd put on them butternut trousers—ayes!
— from The Light in the Clearing: A Tale of the North Country in the Time of Silas Wright by Irving Bacheller
At last Penn saw two men in butternut suits with muskets on their shoulders.
— from Cudjo's Cave by J. T. (John Townsend) Trowbridge
He was a big fellow, broad across the back, wearing a wool hat, a gray jacket, and butternut trousers.
— from The Story of a Common Soldier of Army Life in the Civil War, 1861-1865 by Leander Stillwell
They had met before only when one was in olive drab; the other in jeans and butternut.
— from The Call of the Cumberlands by Charles Neville Buck
“The mayor ain’t to home,” volunteered a lank, unshaven native in butternut jeans and boots.
— from Brand Blotters by William MacLeod Raine
"Now, there's a lot of butternut jeans.
— from Si Klegg, Book 5 The Deacon's Adventures at Chattanooga in Caring for the Boys by John McElroy
Boys in blue and boys in butternut went down.
— from A Boy Trooper with Sheridan by Stanton P. Allen

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