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brownish
Part of speech: Adjective Usage examples "brownish":- A rather thick- set man about thirty, in a rough shooting- coat of a brownish gray with many pockets, a striped shirt, and a black necktie- if tie it could be called that had so little tie in it; a big head, with rather thick and long straggling hair; a large forehead, and large gray eyes; the remaining features well- formed- but rather fat, like the rest of his not elegant person; and a complexion rather pale. - "Weighed and Wanting", George MacDonald.
- Shaped like a huge pig, the head massive, and the eyes placed very high in the forehead, these ponderous animals, whose carcass of a brownish- red looks like a great barrel, have thick hanging lips, and such short stumpy legs, that the belly nearly touches the ground. - "The Ruined Cities of Zululand", Hugh Mulleneux Walmsley.
- She went to the florist's shop, and sacrificing the two marks eighty left over from the transaction of the little cross, she walked back to his house with a brownish yellow bouquet of drooping autumn roses. - "The Song of Songs", Hermann Sudermann.