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- adjective of a medium to dark brownish yellow color
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Examples
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At somewhat higher temperatures, the sugar begins to caramelize and turn yellow-brown, which is undesirable for much sugar work but encouraged for spun sugar and sugar cages, which are made by drizzling the hot syrup in threads over a solid form or a wooden rack, where they harden almost instantly.
On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen Harold McGee 2004
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At somewhat higher temperatures, the sugar begins to caramelize and turn yellow-brown, which is undesirable for much sugar work but encouraged for spun sugar and sugar cages, which are made by drizzling the hot syrup in threads over a solid form or a wooden rack, where they harden almost instantly.
On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen Harold McGee 2004
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On my first trip a chilling rain filled gullies with yellow-brown clay saturated water and it carried trash and sewage alike downstream to an unknown destination.
Jim Luce: Exhaust the Limits: New Book Speaks to One Man's Successful Mission to Help Humanity Jim Luce 2010
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On my first trip a chilling rain filled gullies with yellow-brown clay saturated water and it carried trash and sewage alike downstream to an unknown destination.
Jim Luce: Exhaust the Limits: New Book Speaks to One Man's Successful Mission to Help Humanity Jim Luce 2010
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On my first trip a chilling rain filled gullies with yellow-brown clay saturated water and it carried trash and sewage alike downstream to an unknown destination.
Jim Luce: Exhaust the Limits: New Book Speaks to One Man's Successful Mission to Help Humanity Jim Luce 2010
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On my first trip a chilling rain filled gullies with yellow-brown clay saturated water and it carried trash and sewage alike downstream to an unknown destination.
Jim Luce: Exhaust the Limits: New Book Speaks to One Man's Successful Mission to Help Humanity Jim Luce 2010
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On one side a light wind combed a field of yellow-brown wheat.
Bohemian Rhapsody on Two Wheels Todd Pitock 2011
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On my first trip a chilling rain filled gullies with yellow-brown clay saturated water and it carried trash and sewage alike downstream to an unknown destination.
Jim Luce: Exhaust the Limits: New Book Speaks to One Man's Successful Mission to Help Humanity Jim Luce 2010
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Found in a pool of his own filth outside a seedy motel, his trademarked candy cane striped shirt and matching hat now a putrid yellow-brown, Waldo has seen better days.
El Guapo: Waldo Depressed That Nation Is Obsessed With Undocumented, No Longer Looking For Him El Guapo 2011
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On my first trip a chilling rain filled gullies with yellow-brown clay saturated water and it carried trash and sewage alike downstream to an unknown destination.
Jim Luce: Exhaust the Limits: New Book Speaks to One Man's Successful Mission to Help Humanity Jim Luce 2010
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