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brownish-red

adj. dark brownish to purplish red [syn: maroon]

Usage examples of "brownish-red".

When day came again, and the chill dampness of the night was succeeded by the warmth of the morning, almost the first thing Burl saw in the gray light was a tall spouting of brownish-red stuff leaping abruptly into the air from a burst red parchment-like sphere.

The building is brownish-red brick, with the large many-paned windows they once used in factories in order to save on lighting.

Of course she was still the center­piece, gosh, yes — Jessie Mahout Burlingame, still a shade under forty, still fairly trim at five-seven and a hundred and twenty-five pounds, gray eyes, brownish-red hair (she covered the gray that had begun to show up about five years ago with a glossy rinse and was fairly sure Gerald had never known).

Upriver, the faded brownish-red cylinder of the Castel San Angelo no longer looked quaint and medieval.