Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Inclined to a dun color; somewhat dun.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Inclined to a dun color.
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- adjective Somewhat
dun in colour.
Etymologies
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Examples
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His bodie is full of haire, but not very thicke; and it is of a dunnish colour.
Essays 2007
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Their faces, hands, and ears are without hair; their bodies are covered, but not very thick, with hair of a dunnish colour.
Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo 2003
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She is pale, he notes absently, and a few dunnish streaks dot the forelegs of the gray she rides.
The Towers of the Sunset Modesitt, L. E. 1992
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When ripe, the pease are of medium size, often much indented and irregularly compressed, and of a light, dunnish, or brown color.
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His bodie is full of haire, but not very thicke; and it is of a dunnish colour.
Evidence as to Man's Place in Nature Thomas Henry Huxley 1860
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His bodie is full of haire, but not very thicke; and it is of a dunnish colour.
Lectures and Essays Thomas Henry Huxley 1860
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Their faces, hands, and ears are without hair; their bodies are covered, but not very thick, with hair of a dunnish colour.
Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 1 Richard Francis Burton 1855
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'confesseth that her Familiar doth commonly suck her right Breast about seven at night, in the shape of a little Cat of a dunnish colour, which is as smooth as a Want, and when she is suckt, she is in a kind of a
The Witch-cult in Western Europe A Study in Anthropology Margaret Alice Murray 1913
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"change its colour;" it did so continually, but scarcely any of the colours were agreeable or beautiful; they were mostly dunnish red and yellow, and sometimes black brown; often-times it was covered with spots, now with stripes, now with neither one nor the other.
Travels in the Great Desert of Sahara, in the Years of 1845 and 1846 James Richardson 1828
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She also received sixpence from the Devil, and "her Familiar did commonly suck her right Breast about seven at night in the shape of a little Cat of a dunnish Colour, which is as smooth as a
Among My Books First Series James Russell Lowell 1855
bilby commented on the word dunnish
Law and Order series?
August 26, 2022