Farrow & Ball tones
Glossary term
/ˈfær.əʊ ən ˈbɔːl ˈtəʊnz/
Tastefully muted bourgeois shades. Applied by the narrator to Hawksmoor’s mature plumage.
Appears in
- Pretty Poli chapters:
Connections
Who uses the word
- Hawksmoor Perroquet ← has plumage described as (2 passages)
From the books (1 passage)
…we opened our chronicle, had lost his adolescent sheen but had replaced that metallic hue with tastefully muted Farrow & Ball tones, and was now a mature bird basking in the High Summer of his years. I have no doubt that, had he been human, the exquisiteness of his tailoring would have embarrassed Dr Mark Wankstain into silence. An unaccountable je ne sais quoi of smooth urbanity seemed to permeate…