GR: scuffed-cream

[Mark Kohut]

A 'worn cream' color?...........

A couple-three uses below use it to describe the color of office cubicle 
fiberboard. ....(!)

Only one other writer in these examples uses the connective dash, which makes it 
a single color as Albert suggets.
Pynchon also uses in his fiction--two examples early in V.---connective dashes 
which is how many word phrases 
develop....I think TRP uses snow-bird this way(??).....

High-school started this way.

Here is Google Book Search search:
http://www.google.com/search?q=SCUFFED-CREAM&btnG=Search+Books&tbm=bks&tbo=1#q=SCUFFED-CREAM&hl=en&tbo=1&tbs=bks:1&ei=CQeBTbrcMYWT0QHp27CBCQ&start=0&sa=N&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.&fp=35e715343e383088




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From: Albert Rolls <alprolls at earthlink.net>
To: Pynchon-L <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Wed, March 16, 2011 2:23:27 PM
Subject: Re: GR: scuffed-cream

 It seems like a color. I couldn't find an image, but there are scuffed-cream 
shoes, for example. Maybe it's a cream made to look scuffed.
 
-----Original Message----- 
>From: Mark Kohut 
>Sent: Mar 16, 2011 2:02 PM 
>To: Mike Jing , pynchon-l at waste.org 
>Subject: Re: GR: scuffed-cream 
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>Yoked-together like this, I'd say the closest scuffed-cream meaning is 'worn 
>with use' roughened; rather than noticeable marks per se.......
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>http://www.thefreedictionary.com/scuffed
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 From: Mike Jing <mikezjing at hotmail.com>
>To: pynchon-l at waste.org
>Sent: Wed, March 16, 2011 12:34:42 PM
>Subject: GR: scuffed-cream
>
>  P18.19   ...only the three dingy scuffed-cream fiberboard walls and no ceiling 
>of its own.
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>What color is scuffed-cream exactly?  Is it a particular color? Or is it just 
>cream with scuff marks?  Again, a Google search was not much help.
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