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

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

Vaura wears a robe of seal brown velvet and tight jacket of seal fur, a small ecru velvet bonnet with scarlet geraniums among the lace.

From A Heart-Song of To-day by Savigny, Annie Gregg

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

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.

Splendid specimens of Vanessa antiopa danced together by twos and threes in every sunny glade, the gold edging of bright raiment showing beneath their "mourning cloaks" of rich seal brown.

From Old Plymouth Trails by Packard, Winthrop