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nut-brown en · ADJ

Etymology

From Middle English nute-brun, equivalent to nut + brown.

Meanings

1. Brown as a ripe and dried nut.
   • I remember him as if it were yesterday, as he came plodding to the inn door, his sea-chest following behind him in a hand-barrow; a tall, strong, heavy, nut-brown man; his tarry pigtail falling over the shoulders of his soiled blue coat; his hands ragged and scarred, with black, broken nails; and the sabre cut across one cheek, a dirty, livid white. Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island, (1883), Chapter 1

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