1. Rather, they should be flesh-coloured under white shirts.

2. Associated Press said it was "flesh-coloured", the colour of Obama's own flesh notwithstanding.

3. Some wear black shifts and flesh-coloured stockings; some with curly hair, dyed yellow, are dressed like little girls in short muslin frocks.

4. But they often struggle to distinguish between indecent imagery and more innocuous pictures with large flesh-coloured regions, such as a person in swimwear or a close-up face.

5. They can appear on the skin anywhere in the genital area as small whitish or flesh-coloured bumps, or larger, fleshy, cauliflower-like lumps.

6. There had been more talk during this tournament about the flesh-coloured underwear she has been wearing under her dress than there had been about the possibility of her winning the tournament.

7. In one popular spoof they are portrayed – in the company of Yemen's Ali Abdullah Saleh, who is still clinging to power – in unflattering flesh-coloured body-stockings.