brown study
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of brown study
First recorded in 1525–35
Example Sentences
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“The Potato Eaters,” the large, mostly brown study of peasants at a humble meal that scholars consider Vincent’s first masterpiece, was hung above the fireplace.
From New York Times • Apr. 14, 2021
Most people spend between 30 and 47 percent of their waking hours spacing out, drifting off, lost in thought, woolgathering, in a brown study or building castles in the air.
From Scientific American • Aug. 22, 2014
Now the Committee will go into a brown study and emerge with a tariff bill that will try to satisfy the people back home�and Mr. Hoover.
From Time Magazine Archive
The helm station is quite handsome, a brown study in leather and hardwood.
From Time Magazine Archive
To go back to Edison, shaking his bottle in the sunlight, his brown study gave way to a pleasant smile of welcome when I had made my business known.
From Inventors by Hubert, Philip Gengembre
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