Definitions
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- adjective snuff colored; of a greyish to yellowish brown
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Examples
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The prayer was cut off when a burly man wearing a snuff-brown doublet shoved him out of the way with a curse.
WHEN THE HEAVENS FALL GILBERT MORRIS 2010
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Rachel had chosen a snuff-brown dress of heavy silk to wear this night.
Dearly Beloved 2010
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Nor has it been without delectation that I have endued a new coat (snuff-brown, and with metal buttons), having all nether garments corresponding thereto.
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Chaboisseau, a little old person with powdered hair, wore a greenish coat and snuff-brown waistcoat; he was tricked out besides in black small-clothes, ribbed stockings, and shoes that creaked as he came forward to take the bills.
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He had on a snuff-brown coat, with a broad band of tinsel down the arms, and carried in his hand a large tail made of the caudal extremities of
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Akadie, a thin long-armed man with an ill-assorted set of features-a big nose, sparse curls of snuff-brown hair, glassy blue eyes, a mouth continually trembling at the verge of a smile-was, like Glay, something of a misfit.
Trullion: Alastor 2262 Vance, Jack 1973
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Then the voice of the snuff-brown secretary summoned her.
Fanny Herself Edna Ferber 1926
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His secretary was a spare, middle-aged, anxious-looking woman in snuff-brown and spectacles; his stenographer a blond young man, also spectacled and anxious; his office boy a stern youth in knickers, who bore no relation to the slangy, gum-chewing, redheaded office boy of the comic sections.
Fanny Herself Edna Ferber 1926
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He pressed a buzzer -- the snuff-brown secretary buzzer.
Fanny Herself Edna Ferber 1926
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Then the voice of the snuff-brown secretary summoned her.
Fanny Herself 1917
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