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Nut-brown

adj

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Adjective
  1. 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 the sabre cut across one cheek, a dirty, livid white."

Etymology

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

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