seal brown

American  

noun

1. a rich, dark brown suggestive of dressed and dyed sealskin.

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seal brown British  

noun

1. 1. a dark brown colour often with a yellowish or greyish tinge

   2. ( as adjective )

      a seal-brown dress

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Other Word Forms

• seal-brown
  adjective

Etymology

Origin of seal brown

First recorded in 1880–85

Example Sentences

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seal brown

In their places, Mark Bavaro, Joe Morris, Pepper Johnson and the rest of the Giants’ Over the Hill Gang would play out their golden years in seal brown and orange.

From New York Times ● Sep. 12, 2012

Through our glasses we could see a surprising sight in such a land—little patches of vegetation, seal brown or even emerald green.

From My Attainment of the Pole by Cook, Frederick A.

Shelves bearing eighteenth-century books in seal brown tree calf—Addison, the "Spectator," Junius and Racine, Rochefoucauld and Pascal hung against it here and there.

From The Pit by Norris, Frank

She was a rich seal brown, large and determined, and had left a husband on his honor, in town.

From The Smiling Hill-Top And Other California Sketches by Winslow, Carleton M.

Above blackish; a large white spot before the eye; secondaries tipped with white; sides of neck and the throat seal brown; belly, white.

From Color Key to North American Birds with bibiographical appendix by Chapman, Frank M.