Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A reddish brown, the color of mahogany.
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Examples
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Neither of the young men who hailed from Sikkim was older than twenty-five, and their mahogany-brown skin seemed yet unfamiliar with facial hair.
The Thieves of Darkness Richard Doetsch 2010
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Neither of the young men who hailed from Sikkim was older than twenty-five, and their mahogany-brown skin seemed yet unfamiliar with facial hair.
The Thieves of Darkness Richard Doetsch 2010
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Neither of the young men who hailed from Sikkim was older than twenty-five, and their mahogany-brown skin seemed yet unfamiliar with facial hair.
The Thieves of Darkness Richard Doetsch 2010
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Those with an appreciation of human beauty claimed that he was not particularly handsome, his face a touch asymmetrical, the skin rough and fleshy, while his thick mahogany-brown hair looked as if it was cut with a knife and his own strong hands.
The Year's Best Science Fiction 23rd Annual Collection Dozois, Gardner 2006
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The liver is enlarged, and a yellowish, mahogany-brown color.
Common Diseases of Farm Animals R. A. Craig
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It is furrowed like a tomato, and on the day after we received it the furrows opened and exposed three or four large mahogany-brown seeds embedded in hard pulp.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 421, January 26, 1884 Various
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Roast beef and Yorkshire, or roast pork and apple sauce, followed up by suet pudding and driven home, as it were, by a cup of mahogany-brown tea, have put you in just the right mood.
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His mother's people could have been Nergalers; he had coarse black hair, a mahogany-brown skin, and red-brown, almost maroon, eyes.
Space Viking H. Beam Piper 1934
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Roast beef and Yorkshire, or roast pork and apple sauce, followed up by suet pudding and driven home, as it were, by a cup of mahogany-brown tea, have put you in just the right mood.
Collected Essays 1900
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Had I been drawing on the imaginative resources of the writers of romantic fiction -- and therefore naturally straining for dramatic effects, instead of chronicling the somewhat romantic happenings of my life as a slave, I should have closed with the preceding chapter, leaving the reader to wonder which the baby was -- blue blood or mongrel, magnolia-white or mahogany-brown, but such is not my purpose.
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