brown
noun
a dark tertiary color with a yellowish or reddish hue.
browny
-
a word derived from
brown.
Example Sentences
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"They're a sort of velvety, browny, peachy, reddy colour, but then on the bottom of the tail they have a bright yellow strip, then up the sides of the wings are yellow flashes."
From BBC ● Jan. 11, 2024
“It is browny, yellowy, greeny in colour, a bit slippery to hold but also very heavy and very hard, and when you cut into it you find a stitching of wet wipes holding it together.”
From The Guardian ● Feb. 4, 2018
We go along the corridor and through another flat gray door and along another corridor, softly lit and carpeted this time, in a mushroom color, browny pink.
From "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood
All over the roast fell the flaming drops, till the meat was all shiny and browny.
From Sea and Sardinia by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence
Framed in the aperture, and falling forward a little before it jammed again in its frame, was something that resembled a large lumpy pudding, done up in a pudding-bag of faded browny red frieze.
From Widdershins by Oliver [pseud.] Onions
