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Definition of Embrowning
1. embrown [v] - See also: embrown
Lexicographical Neighbors of Embrowning
Literary usage of Embrowning
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Poetical Works of Thomas Moore by Thomas Moore (1910)
"Though darkened by that sun, whose spirit flows 'Tis but the' embrowning of the
fruit that tells 80 Through every vein, and tinges as it goes, ..."
2. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1867)
"... and complexions from that embrowning and dazzling power. Some people will say
that it is only as a comparatively inexpensive ornament, like a new bonnet ..."
3. The Quarterly Review by John Gibson Lockhart, George Walter Prothero, William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, Baron Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, Sir William Smith (1904)
"... the transformation of the ferns, the filling of the pools, a rising of fogs,
the embrowning by frost, the collapse of the fungi, and an obliteration by ..."
4. Nicaragua: Its People, Scenery, Monuments, and the Proposed Interoceanic by Ephraim George Squier (1852)
"Here, notwithstanding the heat of the sun, I passed most of the day, to the
thorough embrowning of every exposed part of the person. ..."
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