Definitions
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- adjective of brown tinged with red
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Examples
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For a while I would like what cannot be, to travel with you the red-brown country-roads fragrant with hay, to cross the stiles and knock upon the cabin doors, and enter where sorrow and where gladness is, big with greeting and sure of welcome.
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The two isolated elk stood on a knoll at the west end of the cliff; antlerless, dark brown necks, yellow rumps and red-brown body color.
Bird Cloud Annie Proulx 2011
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The plaited-bamboo outbuildings, called “bashas” or “cadjans,” were connected to the main building by narrow cement walks that, she soon discovered, became rivers of gurgling red-brown water and debris after every rainstorm.
A Covert Affair Jennet Conant 2011
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Eva Jane took a step closer to the mirror, lifted her right breast and then her left to examine the red-brown spritz of freckles and stretch marks that had appeared sometime when she wasn't noticing.
Ruination Elizabeth Westmark 2011
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The milk goes tan, then brown, then almost a red-brown, even before the ancho powder goes in.
The Kitchen Daughter Jael McHenry 2011
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The plaited-bamboo outbuildings, called “bashas” or “cadjans,” were connected to the main building by narrow cement walks that, she soon discovered, became rivers of gurgling red-brown water and debris after every rainstorm.
A Covert Affair Jennet Conant 2011
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We would return to our mom all red-brown with golden hair.
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Half hidden beneath one of the rose-bushes, a fair-sized stoat in what remained of its red-brown summer coat.
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The milk goes tan, then brown, then almost a red-brown, even before the ancho powder goes in.
The Kitchen Daughter Jael McHenry 2011
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Bible's eyes looked, in this strange light, somewhat lighter than their usual red-brown.
How the Species Began Again, I Savannah Schroll Guz 2011
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