dun-colored
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6.9
- adjective
- /ˈdʌnˌkʌlɚd/
:
color pardo
- The landscape was dominated by a dull, dun-colored plain stretching as far as the eye could see.
- dun-colored hills
- dun-colored desert
- dun-colored building
Examples
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His fur had not yet filled into its rusty adult coat, so his brush and neck-ruff were thin and spiky, dun-colored.
Fiction book (2001) -
In the far distance rose the Hollywood Hills, dun-colored desert mountains overburdened by the terra-cotta homes of movie directors and rock stars.
Fiction book (2001) -
He slides a large, dun-colored envelope across his desk.
Fiction book (1996) -
There was a dun-colored stone building, with small drawn-in windows, and an array of crooked olive trees in front of it.
Fiction book (1998) -
All she saw were hump-backed burial kurgans rising out of the dun-colored steppe.
Fiction book (1996) -
In other areas, dun-colored landscapes are punctuated by boulders where other artists have placed their visual narratives.
Academic text (2002) -
They took her to Bridger Community Hospital, to a dun-colored room with high ceilings and rattly windows.
Fiction book (1995) -
His lean face is shaded from the sun overhead by a round felt hat with a wide brim, dun-colored like the land around, old and crumpled.
Fiction book (2000) -
Clouds draped most of the stars in thin gray-black silk, but there was enough light to discern three riders on dun-colored horses approaching from the south.
Fiction book (1992) -
She wore a dun-colored coat that blended in perfectly with the autumn surroundings.
Synonyms
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1.0
Having a medium to dark color like wood or tanned skin
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1.3
A light brown colour with a little grey or yellow
13
1.0
A colour that is a little brown
5
5.3
A dull grey or light brownish green color often used for uniforms
1
4.8
A dull pale brown color like light brown hair
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2.0
A brown color mixed with gray
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6.8
Of a dull brown-grey color
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2.7
A gray color with a little brown in it
A brown color that has some grey in it
A light dull brown that looks slightly gray
A grey color with a little brown in it
Having a brownish or grayish brown color like old paper
A dark brownish-grey colour like old wood
A dull brown and gray color like dry earth
A dull pale brownish grey color like a mouse's fur
Antonyms
How Brown
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Dun-colored comes from the old English word dun, which meant 'dark brown' or 'dull gray-brown' and was often used for a horse's coat. So dun-colored simply means having that dull brown-gray color that blends into the landscape.