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brown

/bɹaʊ̯n/ sustantivo A2

En español: marrón, café, canelo, carmelita

  1. A colour like that of chocolate or coffee. (countable, uncountable) · The browns and greens in this painting give it a nice woodsy feel.· He wore brown jeans for his birthday.
  2. One of the colour balls used in snooker, with a value of 4 points. (countable)
  3. Black tar heroin. (uncountable)
  4. A brown horse or other animal. (countable, uncountable)
  5. A person of mostly Latin American (or Latino), Middle Eastern/North African, South Asian, and sometimes Southeast Asian, Pacific Islander, or rarely Native American descent; a brown-skinned person; someone of mulatto, or biracial appearance. (countable, informal)
  6. Any of various nymphalid butterflies of subfamily Satyrinae (formerly the family Satyridae), such as those of the genera Heteronympha and Melanitis. (countable, uncountable)
  7. A brown trout (Salmo trutta). (countable, informal, uncountable)
  8. A mass of birds or animals that may be indiscriminately fired at. (countable, uncountable)

Plural browns

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De la biblioteca

Down on the roof so brown--
A Child's Garden of Verses, p. 11 · C1
The man whom we had known as Douglas turned up his own coat and cuff to show a brown triangle within a circle exactly like that which we had seen upon the dead man.
The Valley of Fear, p. 98 · C1
With these words the Witch fell down in a brown, melted, shapeless mass and began to spread over the clean boards of the kitchen floor.
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, p. 90 · B2
DARK brown is the river,
A Child's Garden of Verses, p. 4 · C1

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