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yellow-brown

adj. a medium to dark brownish yellow color [syn: amber, brownish-yellow]

Usage examples of "yellow-brown".

They didn't allow for chocolate brown, hazel brown or fierce yellow-brown.

His skin was not pale yellow-brown, but a smooth chrome yellow, the color of a comic-book Fu Manchu.

The walls of these were heavily plastered with whitewashed mud, and the roofs were fireproofed by yellow-brown clay tiles.

By order of their Great Khan, a sizable horde of yellow-brown, slant-eyed Kalmyks and their kindred allies were, in fits and starts, withdrawing from the ravaged provinces of northeastern France.

A huge bug, its chitinous carapace an ugly yellow-brown, was pushing its way out of his fortune cookie as if from a cocoon.

The road, clear and straight, uncoiled ahead of the turkey, recoiled behind, locking its passengers in a drowsy, lifeless rhythm from which the granulated yellow-brown layer cake to either side afforded scant relief.

Then he wet the signet ring he wore on the middle finger of his right hand in mustard sauce and stamped a smeary, yellow-brown seal on his orders.

She’s a yellow-brown woman who reminds Snowman of Dolores, his long-lost Philippina nanny.

Grass and bushes, yellow-brown from summer heat, stretched ahead as far as the eye could see: that sereness was what had reminded Abivard of home.

Now it just baked: white salt pans, gray-brown or yellow-brown dirt, a scattering of faded green vegetation.

Tall potted plants in big troughs were wilting, deprived of light their leaves were turning yellow-brown and falling onto the blue and white carpet.