embrowned

comparative more embrowned · superlative most embrowned

1. literarypoeticMade brown; browned.

   The sun-flakes by multitudes lie, / Shed loose as the petals of roses discrowned / On the floors of the forest engilt and embrowned / And reddened afar and anigh.

   1893, The Nineteenth Century and After: A Monthly Review, page 502

2. literarypoeticMade dark or dusky (“having a rather dark shade of colour”); darkened.

   Day was departing, and the embrowned air / Released the animals that are on earth / From their fatigues; […]

   1867, Dante Alighieri, “Canto II”, in Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, transl., The Divine Comedy, volume I (Inferno), Boston, Mass.: Ticknor and Fields, →OCLC, page 7, lines 75–78

1. literaryparticiplepastpoeticsimple past and past participle of embrown