Sanford's brown

noun

A brownish-orange color.

Meanings

nounSanford's brown (uncountable)
  1. uncountableA brownish-orange color.

    The browns are from Brown-Bay to Burnt Sienna […], Mars Orange and Liver Brown […], and Sanford's Brown and Hay's Russet. The only other colors used were black and white.

    1964, Matthew Williams Stirling, Marion Stirling, The Archeology of Taboga, Urabá, and Taboguilla Islands, Panama, page 316
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