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Meanings of rust-brown in English

Of the brown color of rust.

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Examples for "rusty"
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The red coal in the rusty stove crumbles, the lantern smokes out.
The Best Short Stories of 1919, and the Yearbook of the American...
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Sometimes he is dressed in dull gray and sometimes in rusty red.
The Burgess Animal Book for Children
3
I remember this by thinking of Popeye, whose trademark rusty croak went:
The ode less travelled: unlocking the poet within
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In the circumstances perhaps it was inevitable those two would look rusty.
The Guardian
5
He still spoke some Italian, and she said hers was getting rusty.
Sisters
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Over the years, water and humidity have let rust and mould spread.
Reuters
2
In a slightly menacing tone, it said: Coffee rust is the enemy.
BBC
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Then rub it off, Polly; rub the rust and the strangeness off.
Villette
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Lanolin from the sheepskin would help keep the sword free from rust.
Bones of the Dragon
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Word association paints a similarly unflattering picture: tin box, dinky and rust.
The Irish Times
Usage of rust-brown in English
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She wore a rust-brown sweater and a brown skirt, and low-heeled walking-shoes.
Murder in the Gunroom
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Hoyt's blood had left a rust-brown stain on the green ceramic floors.
The Hyperion Cantos
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The lobsters screeched louder and clacked their claws together like nightmarish rust-brown castanets.
Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters
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The spirals were serrated on the edges, some of them covered with rust-brown stains.
Summer knight
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He had shaggy rust-brown hair and a red goatee, ill-trimmed and going to gray.
The burglar who painted like mondrian
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And then strong rust-brown arms scooped me up in the warm, familiar scent of iron.
Shadowglass: the shadowfae chronicles
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Blood had dried rust-brown on the fabric and spilled over the blanket's edge into the sand.
A beautiful place to die
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Everything that I still owned was stuffed into the back seat and trunk of my rust-brown Chevy Caprice.
Monster Hunter International
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His hair is dyed rust-brown - an adjustment for Woody Allen's top-secret project, which he's filming in London at the moment.
The Irish Times
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They show plainly the rust-brown spots of iodine in the areas of the brain, the throat, and other parts of the body.
Nature Cure: Philosophy & Practice Based on the Unity of Disease...
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Rust-brown carpet led down the steps to the closed door.
Micah & Strange Candy