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DUN-COLOURED
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Dictionary entry overview: What does dun-coloured mean?
• DUN-COLOURED (adjective)
The adjective DUN-COLOURED has 1 sense:
1. having a dun color
Familiarity information: DUN-COLOURED used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Having a dun color
Synonyms:
dun-colored; dun-coloured
Similar:
colored; colorful; coloured (having color or a certain color; sometimes used in combination)
Context examples
A thick fog rolled down between the lines of dun-coloured houses, and the opposing windows loomed like dark, shapeless blurs through the heavy yellow wreaths.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
There was the flash of water beneath us, and then we were between those two long dun-coloured lines of houses which had been the avenue which had led us to London.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
It was a country of rolling moors, lonely and dun-coloured, with an occasional church tower to mark the site of some old-world village.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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