Anna Karenina vocabulary

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He was a young man of about thirty, dressed in blue serge, with a pale, keen face, a brown moustache and a rather handsome brown beard.

Arnold Bennett. The Grand Babylon Hôtel (1902)

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She herself was in the dining room, pinning pattern pieces on a length of dark blue serge.

Olive Ann Burns. Cold Sassy Tree, p.268 (1984)

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Oh, how well I remember all the details of that evening! I remember how he brought the violin, how he opened the box, took off the serge embroidered by a lady's hand, and began to tune the instrument.

Leo Tolstoy. The Kreutzer Sonata

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Several hands reached out at once to help, and the heavy body was deftly turned, broad black-serge back toward me.

Diana Gabaldon. Outlander (1991)