nutbrown
dark brown, as many nuts when ripe.
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How to use nutbrown in a sentence
Sir knight and comrade, hither comes one, no nutbrown maid is she, but the fairest of all fair women in this world.
Guingamor, Lanval, Tyolet, Bisclaveret | Marie De FranceAt first, during the autumn days, she had used it for a scamper through the nutbrown woods.
The Girl From Tim's Place | Charles Clark MunnIt began with the College exercise, and ended with the “nutbrown Maid.”
The Lives of the English Poets: Prior, Congreve, Blackmore and Pope | Samuel JohnsonA snow-white moustache and imperial made his nutbrown complexion appear darker than it really was.
A Set of Six | Joseph Conrad
British Dictionary definitions for nutbrown
/ (ˈnʌtˈbraʊn) /
of a brownish colour, esp a reddish-brown: nutbrown hair
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