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embrown

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[em-broun] / ɛmˈbraʊn /

verb (used with or without object)

  1. to make or become brown or dark.


Etymology

Origin of embrown

First recorded in 1660–70; em- 1 + brown

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They settle down to Winter, and their flocks Must furnish sustenance, until the sun Shall break their penance, and embrown the locks Of the o'ergristled seasons; and this won, They counsel further movement.

From Montezuma An Epic on the Origin and Fate of the Aztec Nation by Hiram Hoyt Richmond

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