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hair-brown en · ADJ

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1. Of a colour like brown human hair.
   • The rump and upper tail-coverts white; the tips of some of the latter with a hair-brown spot. 1833, Prideaux John Selby, Illustrations of British Ornithology: Water birds, page 80:
   • […]having the plumage intermixed with a hair-brown tint[…] 1842, Sir William Jardine, The Natural History of the Birds of Great Britain and Ireland, page 208:

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