Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See
brown . - noun Same as
Bismarck or phenylene brown. - noun A basic coal-tar color of the disazo type, prepared by combining two molecules of diazotized para-acetanilide with one molecule of meta-phenylene diamine: particularly suited for the coloring of leather and jute.
- noun A name occasionally applied to phosphene.
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Examples
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When she saw him standing there, tall and leather-brown, hand on his heat-gun, she sobbed once, inarticulately, and collapsed at his feet, a huddle of burning scarlet and bare, brown limbs.
REVIEW: The World Turned Upside Down edited by David Drake, Eric Flint and Jim Baen 2009
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When she saw him standing there, tall and leather-brown, hand on his heat-gun, she sobbed once, inarticulately, and collapsed at his feet, a huddle of burning scarlet and bare, brown limbs.
REVIEW: Northwest of Earth: The Complete Northwest Smith by C. L. Moore 2008
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Tanned and leather-brown from all their time in the sun, we laughed at the thought of how incredibly pale we were.
Ramal zombietron 2008
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Tanned and leather-brown from all their time in the sun, we laughed at the thought of how incredibly pale we were.
Archive 2008-11-01 zombietron 2008
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In the light from a fire, Little Will could see that Pony's eyes were dark circled, his leather-brown face deeply lined.
Elephant Song Longyear, Barry 1982
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His rumpled grey hair stood up above his forehead like the crest of an angry bird, and the leather-brown of his veined cheeks was blotched with red.
Summer; a novel 1917
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His lean face was leather-brown in contrast to a long mustache and heavy eyebrows bleached nearly white, his eyes were a clear steady blue, and his frame was slender but wiry.
The Blazed Trail Stewart Edward White 1909
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His lean face was leather-brown in contrast to a long mustache and heavy eyebrows bleached nearly white, his eyes were a clear steady blue, and his frame was slender but wiry.
The Blazed Trail 1902
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His rumpled grey hair stood up above his forehead like the crest of an angry bird, and the leather-brown of his veined cheeks was blotched with red.
Summer Edith Wharton 1899
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Now, who else is there that is going to solicit your lily-white hand -- which isn't lily-white, but a distinct leather-brown -- before we get away?
Tom Gerrard Louis Becke 1884
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