Definitions

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  • adjective of something having the brown color of rust

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Examples

  • And so convinced was Frona that she glanced involuntarily at St. Vincent's hands, and saw there the rusty-brown stains on the cuffs of his flannel shirt.

    CHAPTER 26 2010

  • Oliver Bolingbroke, tall, lean and wealthily civilised, made a slow visual traverse of the pink rose-bud wallpaper, the linoleum on the floor, the peacock blue satin cushions on the rusty-brown chairs, the unlined floral curtains at the window.

    The Elvis Latte Allie Dresser 2010

  • He was a wall of a man with several tattoos daggers, naked broads, Foghorn Leghorn and a rusty-brown beard that sported tiny silver skull beads.

    Haunted Honeymoon Marta Acosta 2010

  • The following slide showed the deck of the ship, littered with slaughtered bodies and tinged with the rusty-brown remains of a sea of blood.

    ...And Nail 2010

  • I could write about how my little rusty-brown pup with his size twelve paws frolicked with his tabby roommates.

    Pigs on the Wing 2009

  • But on the branch of a redwood, against the green foliage and rusty-brown bark, it hadn't been easy to spot.

    The Year's Best Science Fiction 23rd Annual Collection Dozois, Gardner 2006

  • Her blue uniform was already streaked with rusty-brown clay.

    No Limits Peter David 2003

  • Abencerrages; while a tall, meagre varlet, whose rusty-brown cloak was evidently intended to conceal the ragged state of his nether garments, was lounging in the sunshine and gossiping with an ancient sentinel on duty.

    The Alhambra 2002

  • Abencerrages; while a tall, meagre varlet, whose rusty-brown cloak was evidently intended to conceal the ragged state of his nether garments, was lounging in the sunshine and gossiping with an ancient sentinel on duty.

    The Alhambra 2002

  • Even if it had been, the mere sight of blood would have lighted no fire of emotion in his eyes, which were a rusty-brown color like old armor plate.

    Bill Crider's Pop Culture Magazine Bill Crider 2002

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