browny
adjEtymology From brown + -y.
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Somewhat brown; having a brownish tinge.
- His browny locks did hang in crooked curles.1609, William Shakespeare, A Lover's Complaint:
- As they got nearer to the browny fence they saw that it was a great hedge about eight feet high, made of piled-up thorn bushes.1906, E. Nesbit, The Story of the Amulet:
1 more example
- “Pink, browny red,” he repeated, grinning.2003, Nora Roberts, chapter 3, in Key of Knowledge, →ISBN, page 48:
- Derived terms
- browniness