hair-brown
English
[edit]Adjective
[edit]hair-brown (comparative more hair-brown, superlative most hair-brown)
- Of a colour like brown human hair.
- 1833, Prideaux John Selby, Illustrations of British Ornithology: Water birds, page 80:
- The rump and upper tail-coverts white; the tips of some of the latter with a hair-brown spot.
- 1842, Sir William Jardine, The Natural History of the Birds of Great Britain and Ireland, page 208:
- […] having the plumage intermixed with a hair-brown tint […]