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Brown study

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A melancholy mood accompanied by deep thought; a moody daydream. dated, idiomatic

    "Phædra. [...] Why Soſia! What, in a brown Study? / Soſia. A little cogitabund, or ſo; concerning this diſmal Revolution in our Family!"

  2. 2
    a state of deep absorption or thoughtfulness wordnet

Etymology

From obsolete brown (“gloomy”) and study.

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