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  • adjective superlative form of brown: most brown.

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Examples

  • From the whitest suburb to the brownest barrio, lots of us live only among people who share our skin hue.

    Daniel Cubias: Is Tribalism on the Increase? Daniel Cubias 2011

  • He stared straight up at us through ages of charred skin, sun baked to the brownest of browns and cragged with lines and chasms of life, which had left ages of toil squinting through slit eyes as he looked up at us and broadly smiled.

    Mexico compared to what? 2008

  • I live in NM, with a strong Democratic lean but we cannot seem to manage to go blue (Gore barely) as the heaviest blue areas (the poorest areas and the brownest areas) somehow seem to have the problems with getting their votes counted.

    Poll: Hillary Beating The Republicans In Florida 2009

  •  It was the brownest and driest place they had ever seen.

    Lord Conrads Crusade Frankowski, Leo 2005

  • Hetta was a short, plump, demure young woman, with the softest smoothed hair, and the brownest brightest eyes.

    Tales of all countries 2004

  • She picked out one of the yellow puppies, the one with the dearest, sweetest, brownest eyes, and ran all the way to the Connor house.

    Analog Science Fiction and Fact 2004

  • Even the brownest of thumbs have been known to turn green with hydroculture.

    How To Avoid Housework PAULA JHUNG 1995

  • Even the brownest of thumbs have been known to turn green with hydroculture.

    How To Avoid Housework PAULA JHUNG 1995

  • Even the brownest of thumbs have been known to turn green with hydroculture.

    How To Avoid Housework PAULA JHUNG 1995

  • She melted right down into the biggest, brownest cow flop of them all, and I heard an echoing "Ho-ho-ho!" from the walls.

    Question Quest Anthony, Piers 1991

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