WordNet
n. a shade of brown with a tinge of red [syn: sepia, burnt sienna, Venetian red]
Usage examples of "reddish brown".
His bare feet made no sound as he slipped from the shade into the late afternoon sunlight and over the rocky ground to the gray and reddish brown heap of stone and slag.
It is usually opaque and varies in colour from bright yellowish or rich reddish brown to black.
His eyes strayed to the north, across the Chean River, whose waters were both thinner and more reddish brown than ever.
The flowering tops yield a dye, formerly used in the country to dye woollen cloth purple, and linen a reddish brown, but the tint is neither brilliant nor durable.
He had two coats, a soft undercoat of thick downy fur and a shaggy outer one of reddish brown hair, and beneath his tough hide was a three-inch layer of fat.
Where the road from the mines entered the valley, it was a line of reddish brown that angled down a brown-grassed hillside steep enough that the parts of the lower section of the hill were still in shadow, even late in the morning.