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Meanings of grayish brown in English

A color or pigment varying around a light grey-brown color.

Usage of grayish brown in English
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His eyes were grayish brown, light, with a hint of green.
My Boyhood
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Our Gisli here caught a grayish brown one last evening.
Seven Icelandic Short Stories
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Halfway down the slope he flushed a bird about ptarmigan-size, grayish brown in color.
Cat and Mouse
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In color he is of a grayish brown, with thick-set body, and short, slim tail.
The Lake of the Sky / Lake Tahoe in the High Sierras of Californ...
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When it first emerges it is yellowish, then becomes grayish brown and finally assumes a black shade.
A Century of Negro Migration
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It turns new wood a grayish brown.
Dolly departed
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Long, pigeon-shaped birds, whose backs are grayish brown with a bronze lustre and whose under parts are whitish.
Bird Neighbors / An Introductory Acquaintance with One Hundred a...
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He was usually a well-dressed man, with a kind face, and a head of thick, grayish brown hair.
Beautiful Joe: An Autobiography
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Whipcord, or a closely woven homespun, in some shade of grayish brown that harmonizes with the landscape, is best.
A Woman Tenderfoot
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In the grayish brown hide, the wound burned bright red and immediately started to hardened into a black crust.
The Magician
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The animals were growing their winter coats, a grayish brown shell of hollow, kinky fur that insulated them against the cold.
Before you know kindness
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His grayish brown hair was combed carefully from one side across the top in an unsuccessful attempt to conceal his baldness.
A Hoosier Chronicle
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The long, shining hair on the back is chestnut-colored, while the fine, soft fur that lies next the skin, is grayish brown.
McGuffey's Third Eclectic Reader
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When the shades are very heavy, this grayish brown is almost of a violet-brown, so that the violets might seem to be unaltered.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 363, December 16, 1882
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It has lines it didn't have last year, or the year before, and his skin is grayish brown, like it was dusted with ash.
Four: The Traitor
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When he finally could answer he said, "It's partly grayish brown and some day it may be all brown for a' I know."
Mary Jane—Her Visit
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