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Meanings of mummy-brown in English

Snuff colored; of a greyish to yellowish brown.

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Examples for "snuff"
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It must have been the fault of the Goblin in the snuff-box.
Childhood's Favorites and Fairy Stories / The Young Folks Treasu...
2
Today, open once more to any available sun, they are snuff dry.
The Guardian
3
Therefore no more snuff-boxes; in future I accept only orders of merit.
Correspondence of Wagner and Liszt — Volume 1
4
You could hear the does and fawns coughing in the snuff-like dust.
The Second Jungle Book
5
It was indeed the snuff-box of the President of the Weldon Institute.
Robur the Conqueror
1
The Chinaman's yellow face was impassive, his snuff-brown eyes quite blank.
The Man from the Bitter Roots
2
Then the voice of the snuff-brown secretary summoned her.
Fanny Herself
3
And she had tied her hair with a snuff-brown ribbon which was very unbecoming to her.
The Story Girl
4
And there came a priest, who was a sub-lieutenant, out of a wood of snuff-brown shadows and half-veiled trunks.
France at War: On the Frontier of Civilization
5
She put them both away and instead brought out an ugly pattern of snuff-brown stuff, bought years before and never used.
Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1905 to 1906
Usage of mummy-brown in English
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They were, for example, used in the manufacture of the artist's oil paint known as Mummy Brown.
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