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embrowned

adj — 2 senses

embrowned

adj

UK /ɪmˈbɹaʊnd/ · US /əmˈbɹaʊnd/

Etymology From embrown + -ed.

1

Literary, Poetic Made brown; browned.

  • The sun-flakes by multitudes lie, / Shed loose as the petals of roses discrowned / On the floors of the forest engilt and embrowned / And reddened afar and anigh.1893, The Nineteenth Century and After: A Monthly Review, page 502:
2

Literary, Poetic Made dark or dusky (“having a rather dark shade of colour”); darkened.

  • Day was departing, and the embrowned air / Released the animals that are on earth / From their fatigues; […]1867, Dante Alighieri, “Canto II”, in Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, transl., The Divine Comedy, volume I (Inferno), Boston, Mass.: Ticknor and Fields, →OCLC, page 7, lines 75–78:

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