brown belt
noun
a brown cloth waistband conferred upon a participant in one of the martial arts, as judo or karate, to indicate an intermediate rank.
brown belts
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pluralof brown belt.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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We’d just been awarded our brown belts — the last of the belts before black — when I had to drop out because of a knee injury that required surgery.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026
“If you have a weapon,” he announces to his class of 8-to-10-year-olds, sitting quietly before him with green, blue and brown belts tied around their waists, “you do not mess around!”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 10, 2022
It may help to understand her to know that Bass earned brown belts in taekwondo and hapkido.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 7, 2020
Somewhere in a parallel universe, another Alan Perlman is scratching his head and wondering why the devil he suddenly has three identical brown belts and two CDs of Bill Evans at the Village Vanguard.
From Time Magazine Archive
Tan brown belts, swords, and revolvers were no longer in evidence.
From South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 3 (of 6) From the Battle of Colenso, 15th Dec. 1899, to Lord Roberts's Advance into the Free State, 12th Feb. 1900 by Louis Creswicke
