The Collaborative International Dictionary
dark-brown \dark-brown\ adj. of a color similar to that of wood or earth.
Syn: brown, brownish.
WordNet
Usage examples of "dark-brown".
Passepartout, who had been purchasing several dozen mangoes-- a fruit as large as good-sized apples, of a dark-brown colour outside and a bright red within, and whose white pulp, melting in the mouth, affords gourmands a delicious sensation--was waiting for them on deck.
To some extent, he resembled Ax-Hoof's description of the dreaded Blackfoot though he was largerhis body being about eighteen feet long and his thick tail adding another six feetmore chunkily built and his fur was a uniform dark-brown color, becoming a few shades lighter on his underparts.
Her dress was unbuttoned all down the front, and now she flipped the two halves open, so he could see her entire: the fawn-colored flesh, the dark-brown nipples, the black peppercorn tufts and the dried white flakes clinging there.
One, no, two silver hairs glinted in her straight, dark-brown hair, but that was the only sign of age.
The tub, sink, and toilet were all made from a dark-brown, glossless ceramic material that resembled mud.
But amidst the horsehair sofas and the sombre, dark-brown furnishings, she had been unhappy and had jumped at the opportunity of a smaller flat in Number 22 St John Street (just off St Giles) at the start of the Hilary Term.
The walls were paneled, dark-brown wood and dark-green plaster, up to a wide plate rail on which reposed a collection of odd-shaped teapots.
Professor of Cybernetic Systems Analysis Manfred Takashi was a slim man, fifty, with dark-brown skin and short wiry hair.
Even butternut was now none too plentiful, and many of the soldiers were dressed in captured Yankee uniforms which had been turned a dark-brown color with walnut-shell dye.