brown

brown
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verb
Brown is used with these nouns as the object: ↑meat, ↑onion
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adj., noun
ADVERB
very

He looked very brown after the cruise. (esp. BrE)

uniformly

The once-green fields were now uniformly brown.

ADJECTIVE
dark, deep

her dark brown eyes

light, pale, soft
rich, warm

lovely warm browns and golds

bright

bright brown eyes

drab, dull, muddy
chestnut, chocolate, golden, reddish, rusty
Brown is used with these nouns: ↑ale, ↑bag, ↑bang, ↑bread, ↑coal, ↑envelope, ↑eye, ↑freckle, ↑hair, ↑loaf, ↑mud, ↑mustard, ↑paper, ↑rat, ↑rice, ↑roll, ↑sauce, ↑skin, ↑sugar, ↑toast

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