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English
Etymology
From embrown + -ed.
Pronunciation
Adjective
embrowned (comparative more embrowned, superlative most embrowned) (chiefly literary and poetic)
- Made brown; browned.
- Made dark or dusky (“having a rather dark shade of colour”); darkened.
1867, Dante Alighieri, “Canto II”, in Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, transl., The Divine Comedy, volume I (Inferno), Boston, Mass.: Ticknor and Fields, →OCLC, page 7, lines 75–78:Day was departing, and the embrowned air / Released the animals that are on earth / From their fatigues; […]
Translations
Verb
embrowned
- simple past and past participle of embrown