Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Brown as a ripe and dried nut.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Brown as a nut long kept and dried.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective of the color of nuts
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Examples
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She was a woman, a nut-brown woman, an Amazon, a full-blooded, full-bodied woman, and royal ripe.
The Night-Born 2010
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Over one eye he has a scar, a white slice the length of a thumbnail, the one part of his face that never turns nut-brown.
23rd and Surf Julie Innis 2011
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The nomad was buttoning on a deep green shirt over his wife-beater as he strode toward the landing, his nut-brown hair hanging in loose, shining waves to his shoulders.
Etched in Bone Adrian Phoenix 2011
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She was a woman, a beautiful, nut-brown woman, with a sturdy, health-rounded woman's body and with wonderful deep-blue woman's eyes.
The Night-Born 2010
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Above a square-domed forehead he saw a mop of brown hair, nut-brown, with a wave to it and hints of curls that were a delight to any woman, making hands tingle to stroke it and fingers tingle to pass caresses through it.
Chapter 4 2010
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The nomad was buttoning on a deep green shirt over his wife-beater as he strode toward the landing, his nut-brown hair hanging in loose, shining waves to his shoulders.
Etched in Bone Adrian Phoenix 2011
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The nomad was buttoning on a deep green shirt over his wife-beater as he strode toward the landing, his nut-brown hair hanging in loose, shining waves to his shoulders.
Etched in Bone Adrian Phoenix 2011
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Michael Bryant was a nut-brown necromancer who looked as if he may genuinely have commanded graves to open.
The Tempest - review 2011
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The nomad was buttoning on a deep green shirt over his wife-beater as he strode toward the landing, his nut-brown hair hanging in loose, shining waves to his shoulders.
Etched in Bone Adrian Phoenix 2011
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She is old; white-haired with nut-brown skin, worn and wrinkled by the passage of the seasons.
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