nut-brown
See also: nutbrown
English
Etymology
From Middle English nute-brun, equivalent to nut + brown.
Adjective
nut-brown (comparative more nut-brown, superlative most nut-brown)
- Brown as a ripe and dried nut.
- nut-brown:
- Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island, (1883), Chapter 1:
- I remember him as if it were yesterday, as he came plodding to the inn door, his sea-chest following behind him in a hand-barrow; a tall, strong, heavy, nut-brown man; his tarry pigtail falling over the shoulders of his soiled blue coat; his hands ragged and scarred, with black, broken nails; and the sabre cut across one cheek, a dirty, livid white.