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Middle English
Alternative forms
Etymology
Inherited from Old English brūn, from Proto-West Germanic *brūn, from Proto-Germanic *brūnaz.
Pronunciation
Adjective
broun (plural and weak singular broune)
- dark, dull, murky (in color)
- brown (of a brown color)
- brown-haired
- having brown skin
- (metal) bright, shining
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Noun
broun
- brown (colour)
- brown-haired person
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Colors in Middle English · coloures, hewes (layout · text)
| whit
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grey, hor
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blak
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| red; cremesyn, gernet
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citrine, aumbre; broun, tawne
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yelow, dorry, gul; canevas
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| grasgrene
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grene
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| plunket; ewage
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asure, livid
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blewe, blo, pers
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| violet; inde
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rose, murrey; purpel, purpur
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claret
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