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Webster 1913 Edition
Hair-brown
Hair′-brownˊ
(-brounˊ)
, Adj.
Of a clear tint of brown, resembling brown human hair. It is composed of equal proportions of red and green.
Definition 2024
hair-brown
hair-brown
English
Adjective
hair-brown (comparative more hair-brown, superlative most hair-brown)
- Of a colour like brown human hair.
- 1833, Prideaux John Selby, Illustrations of British Ornithology: Water birds (page 80)
- The rump and upper tail-coverts white; the tips of some of the latter with a hair-brown spot.
- 1842, Sir William Jardine, The Natural History of the Birds of Great Britain and Ireland (page 208)
- […] having the plumage intermixed with a hair-brown tint […]
- 1833, Prideaux John Selby, Illustrations of British Ornithology: Water birds (page 80)