nutbrown

[nuht-broun]

adjective

dark brown, as many nuts when ripe.

Origin of nutbrown

1250–1300; Middle English. See nut, brown

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Examples from the Web for nutbrown

Historical Examples of nutbrown

A snow-white moustache and imperial made his nutbrown complexion appear darker than it really was.
A Set of Six
Joseph Conrad
It began with the College exercise, and ended with the “Nutbrown Maid.”
The Lives of the English Poets: Prior, Congreve, Blackmore and Pope
Samuel Johnson
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 France
At first, during the autumn days, she had used it for a scamper through the nutbrown woods.
The Girl From Tim's Place
Charles Clark Munn

British Dictionary definitions for nutbrown

nutbrown

adjective

of a brownish colour, esp a reddish-brownnutbrown hair

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