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Meanings of greyish brown in English

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

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        Examples for "fawn"
        Examples for "fawn"
        1
        Yes, it is true that the jaguar and the fawn hide here.
        Gods go begging
        2
        He looked down at the fawn in a helpless sort of way.
        The Complete Writings of Charles Dudley Warner — Volume 3
        3
        Its materials were of a fawn-coloured stone, common in the Mowbray quarries.
        Sybil, Or, The Two Nations
        4
        Our young braves run to battle with the swiftness of the fawn.
        This Country of Ours
        5
        She put her hand in his and jumped lightly as a fawn.
        The Last Trail
        1
        View this post on Instagram i really dunno what to say yet.
        BBC
        2
        I dunno... a 'Hey, Captain, how ya doing?' will work just fine.
        Smoke and Shadow
        3
        David starts off explaining the meaning of 'Igba dun' which means enjoyment.
        The South African
        4
        Images of a young man in the dun-colored cities of late afternoon.
        A Sport and a Pastime
        5
        Her duty had been to remain in the dun, awaiting the injured.
        Celtic fire
        1
        His eyes were grayish brown, light, with a hint of green.
        My Boyhood
        2
        Our Gisli here caught a grayish brown one last evening.
        Seven Icelandic Short Stories
        3
        Halfway down the slope he flushed a bird about ptarmigan-size, grayish brown in color.
        Cat and Mouse
        4
        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...
        5
        When it first emerges it is yellowish, then becomes grayish brown and finally assumes a black shade.
        A Century of Negro Migration
        Usage of greyish brown in English
        1
        The under-part of its plumage is chequered brown and white, but the upper-part is of greyish brown.
        The History of Louisiana, Or of the Western Parts of Virginia an...
        2
        He wore a suit of greyish brown, of foreign manufacture, and as he rose, seemed about five feet ten inches.
        The Southerner: A Romance of the Real Lincoln
        3
        The ground-colour is white or slightly greyish white, and they are uniformly freckled all over with very pale yellowish and greyish brown.
        The Nests and Eggs of Indian Birds, Volume 1
        4
        Both sexes have a shiny appearance: males are greyish brown, females brown with darker sides and a thin, dark line down their back.
        The Guardian
        5
        Its back is covered with long thin hair of a light chestnut colour, beneath which lies a fine wool of soft greyish brown.
        With Axe and Rifle
        6
        He is a tall, powerful-looking man with a shock of greyish brown hair that springs from his head like sparks from an electrode.
        100 New Yorkers of the 1970s
        7
        In colour the animal was a greyish brown, dark on the upper part of the body, fading to a dirty white on the lower.
        The Strange Adventures of Eric Blackburn
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        Under their shining chestnut hair was a thick soft coat of greyish brown, and Mother Beaver seemed very anxious that this should lie quite flat.
        The Junior Classics, Volume 8: Animal and Nature Stories