˜yÐÄvlog

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embrown

[ em-broun ]

verb (used with or without object)

  1. to make or become brown or dark.


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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of embrown1

First recorded in 1660–70; em- 1 + brown
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It was a fine autumn morning; the early sun shone serenely on embrowned groves and still green fields; advancing on to the lawn, I looked up and surveyed the front of the mansion.

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His face was embrowned by long exposure to the extremes of weather, while its expression had a rigidity that was scarcely ever discomposed.

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Her black hair fell down upon a neck embrowned like a raven's wing, and threw something of a wild hardihood into her expression, tempered however by the velvety softness of her eye.

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The lady was embrowned with the Eastern sun, and, having lost her eye-lashes by that disease which she fought so manfully to conquer, her eyes were fierce and martial.

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His strong features, embrowned by long exposure to the heat of the tropical sun, had a peculiar charm, due, perhaps, to an expression of habitual melancholy.

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