Definitions

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Pertaining to Thomas Browne (1605-1682), English writer and polymath.

Etymologies

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

Browne +‎ -an

Support

Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word Brownean.

Examples

  • Quite aside from the thrill and the romance, Noir can even find parallels in the inexorable direction of our blighted Brownean society.

    Archive 2009-06-01 2009

  • Quite aside from the thrill and the romance, Noir can even find parallels in the inexorable direction of our blighted Brownean society.

    [film noir] should return in the coming dystopia 2009

Comments

Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.