RED-BROWN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does red-brown mean? 

• RED-BROWN (adjective)
  The adjective RED-BROWN has 1 sense:

1. of brown tinged with red

  Familiarity information: RED-BROWN used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RED-BROWN (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Of brown tinged with red

Synonyms:

mahogany-red; red-brown; reddish-brown

Similar:

chromatic (being or having or characterized by hue)

 Context examples 

It is characterized by itchy, burning papular lesions which form open sores with red-brown crusts.

(Pityriasis Lichenoides et Varioliformis Acuta, NCI Thesaurus)

The coat color may be red-brown, or a yellowish-red with some white markings.

(Finnish Spitz, NCI Thesaurus)

Griffons come in red, a mixture of red-brown and black, black and tan, and solid black.

(Brussels Griffon, NCI Thesaurus)

He was brown, deep brown, red-brown, an orgy of browns.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

It belonged to a red-haired person—a youth of fifteen, as I take it now, but looking much older—whose hair was cropped as close as the closest stubble; who had hardly any eyebrows, and no eyelashes, and eyes of a red-brown, so unsheltered and unshaded, that I remember wondering how he went to sleep.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)