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nut-brown

nut-brown adjective: brown as a ripe and dried nut.

Adjective

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

  1. Brown as a ripe and dried nut.
    • I remember him as if it were yesterday, as he came plodding to the inn door, his sea-chest following behind him in a hand-barrow; a tall, strong, heavy, nut-brown man; his tarry pigtail falling over the shoulders of his soiled blue coat; his hands ragged and scarred, with black, broken nails; and...Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island, (1883), Chapter 1

Forms of nut-brown

comparativemore nut-brown
superlativemost nut-brown

Origin of nut-brown

From Middle English nute-brun, equivalent to nut + brown.

Phrases with nut-brown

Questions about nut-brown

What does nut-brown mean?
Nut-brown means brown as a ripe and dried nut.
What part of speech is nut-brown?
Nut-brown is an adjective.

Words near nut-brown in the dictionary

  1. nut weevils
  2. nut wrench
  3. nut wrenches
  4. nut-bar
  5. nut-bars
  6. nut-brown
  7. nut-brown butter
  8. nut-case
  9. nut-cases
  10. nut-cut
  11. nut-cutting time

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