Meanings
comparative more nut-brown · superlative most nut-brown
- 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
- Middle Englishnute-brun
- Englishnut-brown
From Middle English nute-brun, equivalent to nut + brown.
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