Brown

Brown

Brown is a color term, denoting a range of composite colors produced by a mixture of orange, red, rose, or yellow with black or gray. The term is from Old English brún, in origin for any dusky or dark shade of color. The first recorded use of brown as a color name in English was in 1000. The Common Germanic adjective *brûnoz, *brûnâ meant both dark colors and a glistening or shining quality, whence burnish. The current meaning developed in Middle English from the 14th century.

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Famous quotes containing the word brown:

    “I am as content to die for God’s eternal truth on the scaffold as in any other way.”
    —John Brown (1800–1859)

    “They killed the man I was. All that’s left is the will to hate and to destroy.”
    —Karl Brown (1897–1990)

    “Unreal City,
    Under the brown fog of a winter dawn,
    A crowd flowed over London Bridge, so many,
    I had not thought death had undone so many.”
    —T.S. (Thomas Stearns)