hair-brown

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English[edit]

Adjective[edit]

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

  1. 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 []