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
The helm station is quite handsome, a brown study in leather and hardwood.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Department of Agriculture came out of a brown study and announced its June estimates for 1925 grain crops.
From Time Magazine Archive
He shut up like the proverbial oyster, leaving Joe to go on immersed in his own particular brown study.
From A Boy of the Dominion A Tale of Canadian Immigration by Brereton, F. S. (Frederick Sadleir)
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