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  • noun The quality of being brownish.

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Examples

  • I'm still perplexed why Brits would want to watch it, and why the producers thought that it would be worth the money: there's nothing fancy about it, and there's a constant grayish-brownishness about it.

    Found a Cadfael fan mj 2008

  • For one thing, it was far better watered; nowhere could she see the half-dried brownishness so characteristic of her own land.

    The Emancipatrix Homer Eon Flint 1908

  • For one thing, it was far better watered; nowhere could she see the half-dried brownishness so characteristic of her own land.

    The Devolutionist and the Emancipatrix Homer Eon Flint 1908

  • You'll have to take my word for it that the rest of the brownishness went away after another wipe; the final "after" photo didn't come out!

    verbatim 2008

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