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  • adjective Of a dark brown color, like that of ripe nuts.

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Examples

  • Stay tuned for part 2 this week, in which we taste the new Leinenkugel offering fireside nutbrown and Jolly Pumpkin's Bam Noire.

    Madison Beer Review Presents Beer Talk Today 2008

  • Stay tuned for part 2 this week, in which we taste the new Leinenkugel offering fireside nutbrown and Jolly Pumpkin's Bam Noire.

    Archive 2008-11-01 2008

  • By ten o'clock he had reached a country of rolling beech-woods, and turning aside from the high road he wandered over the bare nutbrown soil that gave the glossy leaves high above a green unparagoned, a green so lambent that the glimpses of the sky beyond seemed opaque as turquoises amongst it.

    The Altar Steps Compton MacKenzie 1927

  • Gerty just took off her hat for a moment to settle her hair and a prettier, a daintier head of nutbrown tresses was never seen on a girl's shoulders -- a radiant little vision, in sooth, almost maddening in its sweetness.

    Ulysses James Joyce 1911

  • The curtains all parted, and from the midst of each there stepped a little nutbrown maid, who seemed too lovely to be Indian.

    The Winds of the World Talbot Mundy 1909

  • Brownie, -- that's all my own name for you, -- isn't it, you nutbrown maid!

    Patty and Azalea Carolyn Wells 1902

  • She had a round, nutbrown, soft face, all fine wrinkles, large, bright red lips (she chewed betel assiduously), and screwed up, winking, benevolent eyes.

    Lord Jim 1900

  • Yes; and how much more they took from nutbrown faces, from smiles beaming from ear to ear, from the boy so tall that he looked down upon his father, from the girl so womanly that you asked if her mother were not masquerading.

    The Brick Moon, and Other Stories 1899

  • A snow-white moustache and imperial made his nutbrown complexion appear darker than it really was.

    A Set of Six Joseph Conrad 1890

  • Releasing her hand, Mr. Wyvern performed a singular little ceremony: he laid his right palm very gently on her nutbrown hair, and his lips moved.

    Demos George Gissing 1880

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