nut-brown

adjective

Brown as a ripe and dried nut.

Meanings

adjectivenut-brown (comparative more nut-brown, superlative most nut-brown)

comparative more nut-brown · superlative most nut-brown

  1. Brown as a ripe and dried nut.
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    I remember him as if it were yesterday, as he came plodding to the inn door, his sea-chest following behind him in a hand-barrow; a tall, strong, heavy, nut-brown man; his tarry pigtail falling over the shoulders of his soiled blue coat; his hands ragged and scarred, with black, broken nails; and the sabre cut across one cheek, a dirty, livid white.

    Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island, (1883), Chapter 1

Origin

  1. Middle Englishnute-brun
  2. Englishnut-brown

From Middle English nute-brun, equivalent to nut + brown.

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Chicago

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