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hair-brown

hair-brown adjective: of a colour like brown human hair.

Adjective

hair-brown (comparative more hair-brown, superlative most hair-brown)

  1. Of a colour like brown human hair.
    • The rump and upper tail-coverts white; the tips of some of the latter with a hair-brown spot.1833, Prideaux John Selby, Illustrations of British Ornithology: Water birds, page 80
    • […]having the plumage intermixed with a hair-brown tint[…]1842, Sir William Jardine, The Natural History of the Birds of Great Britain and Ireland, page 208

Forms of hair-brown

comparativemore hair-brown
superlativemost hair-brown

Questions about hair-brown

What does hair-brown mean?
Hair-brown means of a colour like brown human hair.
What part of speech is hair-brown?
Hair-brown is an adjective.

Words near hair-brown in the dictionary

  1. hair's breadth
  2. HAIR-AN
  3. HAIR-AN syndrome
  4. HAIR-AN syndromes
  5. hair-bowed
  6. hair-brown
  7. hair-brush
  8. hair-brushes
  9. hair-clip
  10. hair-clips
  11. hair-curling

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