embrowned en · ADJ
Pronunciation
- /əmˈbɹaʊnd/ (General-American)
- /ɛm-/ (Received-Pronunciation)
- /ɛm-/ (General-American)
- /ɪmˈbɹaʊnd/ (Received-Pronunciation)
Etymology
Etymology tree English embrown Old English -ed Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂tos Proto-Germanic *-ōdaz Old English -od Middle English -ed English -ed English embrowned From embrown + -ed.
Meanings
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(literary, poetic) Made brown; browned.
The sun-flakes by multitudes lie, / Shed loose as the petals of roses discrowned / On the floors of the forest engilt and embrowned / And reddened afar and anigh.
1893, The Nineteenth Century and After: A Monthly Review, page 502:
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(literary, poetic) Made dark or dusky (“having a rather dark shade of colour”); darkened.
Day was departing, and the embrowned air / Released the animals that are on earth / From their fatigues; […]
1867, Dante Alighieri, “Canto II”, in Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, transl., The Divine Comedy, volume I (Inferno), Boston, Mass.: Ticknor and Fields, →OCLC, page 7, lines 75–78:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| more embrowned | Degree=Cmp | lexicographic | |
| most embrowned | Degree=Sup | lexicographic |