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noun

any of three species of brown butterfly, esp the common Lasiommata megera, that habitually sun themselves on rocks and walls

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Words nearby wall brown

Wallasey, Walla Walla, wall bars, wallboard, wall box, wall brown, wallcovering, wall creeper, walled, walled plain, Wallenberg

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How to use wall brown in a sentence

A Wall Street person should not be allowed to help oversee the Dodd-Frank reforms.
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There was deep brown flesh, and bronze flesh, and pallid white flesh, and flesh turned red from the hot sun.
Powerful Congressman Writes About ‘Fleshy Breasts’|Asawin Suebsaeng|January 7, 2015|DAILY BEAST
It was a brick wall that we turned into the on-ramp of a highway.
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They became so brown and shriveled that they looked like walking beef jerky with New York accents.
Powerful Congressman Writes About ‘Fleshy Breasts’|Asawin Suebsaeng|January 7, 2015|DAILY BEAST

It reminded me a bit of an alternative take on The Wolf of Wall Street—through the Toni and Candace lens.
Coffee Talk with Fred Armisen: On ‘Portlandia,’ Meeting Obama, and Taylor Swift’s Greatness|Marlow Stern|January 7, 2015|DAILY BEAST
The case was an assault and battery that came off between two men named Brown and Henderson.
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"There's just one thing I'd like to ask, if you don't mind," said Cynthia, coming suddenly out of a brown study.
The Boarded-Up House|Augusta Huiell Seaman
A flash of surprise and pleasure lit the fine eyes of the haughty beauty perched up there on the palace wall.
The Red Year|Louis Tracy
Kind of a reception-room in there—guess I know a reception-room from a hole in the wall.
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It separates into three layers upon standing—a brown deposit, a clear fluid, and a frothy layer.
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