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- adj. of the brown color of rust
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“When they then saw Gordon come lumbering down the hallway, his jaw slack, his rust-brown eyes panning the room and the children for signs of misbehavior, they shook in their shoes and held their breath.”
“Sticky rust-brown oil slathers the grass in the marshlands.”
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“The pipes started dripping rust-brown water that burned a little when it hit the back of my hand.”
“In the cockpit, Ensign Thur chim Gliv, a young Tellarite with a coat of short rust-brown fur, turned in his seat as he sensed another person enter.”
“The drinking water came out rust-brown, sometimes viscous.”
“Looking around, feeling self-conscious, Meera sat in one of the chairs, hoping it would not tear her sari or leave a stain, rust-brown on white.”
“I passed anthills that were waist high; at first glance they seemed to be merely heaps of rust-brown needles.”
“When I met Father Tikhon, now approaching fifty, his beard had turned from flame-red to rust-brown, but he still looked slim and youthful.”
“Except for a large hanging mirror and a wooden table, it held nothing but a huge old zinc bath, the sides of which were streaked rust-brown from the tide-marks of the many waters that had filled it.”
“A thin, curved shell of shiny rust-brown pearwood wraps the main dining space, which is smaller than I remembered.”
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