WordNet
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 centerÂpiece, 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.