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Meanings of dun-coloured in English

Having a dun color.

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Usage of dun-coloured in English
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The men wore dun-coloured garments, and the women were not much livelier.
The Conqueror: Being the True and Romantic Story of Alexander Ha...
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The wild horses and asses of Central Asia are dun-coloured-correspondingexactly to their sandy habitat.
The Human Side of Animals
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Hitherto you have only seen life through dun-coloured spectacles.
The Survivor
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See how the yellow fog swirls down the Street and drifts across the dun-coloured houses.
The Sign of the Four
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The town walls were dun-coloured, the shrubs were grey, the young buds were pale and closed.
I.N.R.I.: A prisoner's Story of the Cross
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The moment that dun-coloured Irishman gets up, the whole government pack begins to whine and shiver.
Richard Carvel — Volume 06
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The passageway was lined with small dun-coloured paintings.
The water room
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Like a stately poplar, he bestrode his dun-coloured steed, and many heroic deeds did he perform.
Taras Bulba, and Other Tales
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It drew a new colour from the dun-coloured marshes, the masses of emerald seaweed, the shimmering sands.
The Vanished Messenger
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He pictures her, a dun-coloured, dwindling figure, tramping away towards the horizon over the flat muddy fields.
Wolf hall
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Lieutenant Jenny Harris twitched the reins, and the dun-coloured horse gave the big qualtook tree a wide berth.
The Reality Dysfunction
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It resembled a dun-coloured mist or smoke, as if the plain at a great distance was on fire!
The Bush Boys: History and Adventures of a Cape Farmer and his F...
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Birds flittered about in the upper boughs, uninspiring dun-coloured bat-analogues with long, powerful forelimbs for tunnelling into the ground.
The Reality Dysfunction
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He hated the domestic woman-Lucretius'sdun-coloured wife, for instance-onwhom no man except her mate would cast an eye.
Roads from Rome
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The sun was shining obliquely through a dun-coloured haze when I reached the village of Échourgnac in a cultivated valley.
Two Summers in Guyenne: A Chronicle of the Wayside and Waterside
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Between its broad, dun-coloured polar regions, the planet displayed seven horizontal bands coloured various shades of yellow, red and brown.
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