brownness

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

From brown + -ness.

She had taken off the invalid-cap, and her soft hair was arranged as carefully as if no white lines marred its brownness. — Agatha's Husband: A Novel, Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
The wide acreage of blank agricultural brownness, apparent where the swedes had been pulled, was beginning to be striped in wales of darker brown, gradually broadening to ribands. — Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman, Thomas Hardy
The forefeet of the Yahoo differed from my hands in nothing else but the length of the nails, the coarseness and brownness of the palms, and the hairiness on the backs. — Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World, Jonathan Swift

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