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Webster 1913 Edition


Hair-brown

Hair′-brownˊ

(-brounˊ)
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Adj.
Of a clear tint of brown, resembling brown human hair. It is composed of equal proportions of red and green.

Definition 2024


hair-brown

hair-brown

English

Adjective

hair-brown (comparative more hair-brown, superlative most hair-brown)

  1. Of a colour like brown human hair.
    • 1833, Prideaux John Selby, Illustrations of British Ornithology: Water birds (page 80)
      The rump and upper tail-coverts white; the tips of some of the latter with a hair-brown spot.
    • 1842, Sir William Jardine, The Natural History of the Birds of Great Britain and Ireland (page 208)
      [] having the plumage intermixed with a hair-brown tint []