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Definition of Embrowned
1. embrown [v] - See also: embrown
Lexicographical Neighbors of Embrowned
Literary usage of Embrowned
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Narrative of Excursions, Voyages, and Travels, Performed at Different by George Rapelje (1834)
"... the women are very hard- featured and coarse, and very much embrowned by the
sun. They never wear hats, but seem to labor like beasts of burden. ..."
2. The Canadian Entomologist by Entomological Society of Canada (1951- ), Entomological Society of Ontario (1881)
"Very similar to the preceding, but not so black ; wings slightly embrowned,
beautifully iridescent; legs, where the shank is united to the thigh, ..."
3. Annals and Magazine of Natural History by William Jardine (1845)
"... head and neck dusky olive, passing gradually into embrowned ochreous red on
the body above and below, as well as on the whole visible part of the closed ..."
4. Stonewall Jackson: A Military Biography by John Esten Cooke, Moses Drury Hoge, John William Jones (1876)
"He wore, at this time, an old sun-embrowned coat of gray cloth, ... To call it
sun-embrowned, however, is scarcely to convey an adequate idea of the extent ..."
5. Lectures on Painting by James Barry, John Opie, Henry Fuseli (1848)
"The predominance of tender flesh, and white or tinted drapery on the foreground,
whilst the more distant groups are embrowned by masculine tints and ..."
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