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I'm translating an excerpt for fun, but this section struck me as odd:

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> 彼女は、口に持っていきかけていたコップを、ゆっくりとテーブルに戻すと、それっきり、放心したように、黙り込んでしまう。微速度撮影でうつした、枯れていく花のように、みるみる両眼が落ちくぼみ、鼻がそげ、
> **あれほどなめらかだった肌の色も** 、揉み皮のように張りを失い、唇のあいだには、桑の実を食べた後のような、黒いおりがにじみ出る。

This is how I translated that section:

> In mid-motion, she stopped and slowly lowered to the table the cup she had
> raised to her lips. And after that, as though her soul had left her, she
> went mute. As I watched, like a flower in time-lapse, her eyes sank inward,
> her nose drooped, **and the color of her skin that had been so smooth, lost
> its tension like chamois leather.** Around her lips, a dark stain appeared
> like that left by mulberries.

My problem is, the idea of "color" losing tension or pluck (candidate
translations of 張り) feels nonsensical in English. One hypothesis is that も is
actually attached to 肌, not 色.

What do you think?
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Is ～も really marking the word just prior to it?
Is it an excerpt from a novel?

It does seem weird both in Japanese and English. One possibility is that the
黒いおり at the end of the sentence is attached to 肌の色:

> あれほどなめらかだった肌の色も、揉み皮のように張りを失い、唇のあいだには、桑の実を食べた後のような、黒いおりがにじみ出る。
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> The color of her skin that had been so smooth, has lost its tension like
> chamois leather, and between her lips there were black stains, as if she had
> just ate some mulberries.

so that everything between 肌の色 and 黒いおり describes how her skin, which was once
smooth, has changed.

Anyway, it is a weird sentence.
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To answer the title question, yes, it is. The particle 「も」 cannot mark a word
anywhere else but right in front of it.

The main thing that is preventing both OP and the first "answerer" from
understanding and appreciating this sentence seems to be their belief that 「色」
always means "color". Look it up in a good dictionary -- a monolingual one, of
course. It will give you a dozen meanings and one of them will be 色つや =
"luster".

"Luster" can surely 揉み皮のように張りを失う, can it not?
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It makes sense if the つや in 色つや is

２ なめらかで張りがあり美しいこと。「若々しい―のある声」「肌に―がある」

and not

１ 物の表面から出るしっとりとした光。光沢。「宝石を磨いて―を出す」

from <http://dictionary.goo.ne.jp/leaf/jn2/148376/m0u/%E3%81%A4%E3%82%84/>
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