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  • adjective of grey tinged with brown

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Examples

  • The John Deere, on the other hand, imitates trampled turf (in green) or mud (in a brownish-grey).

    Contemporary Rugs HZL 2009

  • The levels in Gears of War feel like dead environments meant to convey destruction, but ultimately feeling like shiny brownish-grey movie sets that the game was reenacted on.

    Flixnjoystix.com! » FlixnJoystix Presents: Metaldy’s Meanderings! A Few Reasons Why…Videogame Graphics Are Overrated! 2009

  • Its congener, Spongiforma thailandica, is very different from SpongeBob SquarePants: it ranges in colour from pale brownish-grey to reddish-brown and smells strongly of coal-tar.

    The new fungus from Bikini Bottom 2011

  • When the protein is isolate from the starches of the flour, it is brownish-grey, tough and rubbery.

    What is gluten? | Baking Bites 2008

  • Kinda brownish-grey carpety looking stuff, just like he described.

    Archive 2008-07-01 Vagabond 2008

  • Kinda brownish-grey carpety looking stuff, just like he described.

    It's America's Birthday! Vagabond 2008

  • This might actually give more warmth to the paste instead of just throwing it in with the chicken broth, like I did, consequently not making the resulting colour look very appetizing brownish-grey.

    Weekend Cookbook Challenge # 16 - Chicken Satsivi Shaun 2007

  • This might actually give more warmth to the paste instead of just throwing it in with the chicken broth, like I did, consequently not making the resulting colour look very appetizing brownish-grey.

    Archive 2007-05-01 Shaun 2007

  • When my sight returned another of those hundred-legged starfish of brownish-grey smoke had materialized.

    Soldiers Live Cook, Glen 2000

  • * This small Asian goatlike bovine has slightly backward curving cylindrical horns and a coarse brownish-grey coat.

    Chapter 8 1983

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