Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Of a clear tint of brown, resembling brown human hair. It is composed of equal proportions of red and green.
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- adjective Of a colour like
brown human hair .
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Examples
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The general colour of the upper plumage is light hair-brown, mottled and variegated with dark umber-brown and yellowish-white.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 550, June 2, 1832 Various
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The feathers of the thighs and tarsi are light hair-brown, mottled with darker lines.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 550, June 2, 1832 Various
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The caps are very irregular in shape, curved, repand, radiately furrowed, sometimes zoned; gray, or hair-brown in color, with a perceptibly hairy surface, the hairs running in lines on the surface.
Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc. George Francis Atkinson 1886
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In color it runs from ecru drab to hair-brown with streaks of the latter, and it is very viscid when moist.
Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc. George Francis Atkinson 1886
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Cap drab to hair-brown with streaks of the latter, viscid when moist, tubes tawny olive to walnut-brown, stem black dotted both above and below the broad, free annulus (natural size).
Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc. George Francis Atkinson 1886
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Cap hair-brown to olive-brown, scales minute, pointed, gills and stem white (natural size).
Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc. George Francis Atkinson 1886
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Cap hair-brown, or umber-brown, sometimes with tinge of lemon yellow, or entirely maize-yellow.
Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc. George Francis Atkinson 1886
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Jerdon states that Major Strutt killed in the Balti valley an ibex of a rich hair-brown colour, with a yellowish-white saddle in the middle of its back, and a dark mesial line; the head, neck and limbs being of a dark sepia brown, with a darker line on the front of the legs; others were seen in the same locality by Major Strutt of a still darker colour.
Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon Robert Armitage Sterndale 1870
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But too true friends were we not to be sincere in all we seriously said; and while Audubon confessed that he saw rather more plainly than when we parted the crowfeet in the corners of our eyes, we did not deny that we saw in him an image of the Falco Lencocephalus, for that, looking on his 'carum caput,' it answered his own description of that handsome and powerful bird, viz. 'the general color of the plumage above is dull hair-brown, the lower parts being deeply brown, broadly margined with greyish white.'
The International Monthly, Volume 2, No. 4, March, 1851 Various
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Caps hair-brown or grayish, tubes white (1/3 natural size, masses often
Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc. George Francis Atkinson 1886
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