nut-brown

See also: nutbrown

English

Etymology

From Middle English nute-brun, equivalent to nut +‎ brown.

Adjective

nut-brown (comparative more nut-brown, superlative most nut-brown)

1. Brown as a ripe and dried nut.

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   • Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island, (1883), Chapter 1:

     I remember him as if it were yesterday, as he came plodding to the inn door, his sea-chest following behind him in a hand-barrow; a tall, strong, heavy, nut-brown man; his tarry pigtail falling over the shoulders of his soiled blue coat; his hands ragged and scarred, with ​black, broken nails; and the sabre cut across one cheek, a dirty, livid white.