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Dun-colored   /dən-kˈələrd/   Listen
Dun-colored

adjective
1.
Having a dun color.  Synonym: dun-coloured.






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"Dun-colored" Quotes from Famous Books



... atavism if you will—which adorned Miss Slayback's dun-colored walls was a passe-partout snowscape, night closing in, and pink cottage windows peering out from under eaves. She could visualize that interior as if she had only to turn the frame for the smell of wood fire and the snap of ...
— Americans All - Stories of American Life of To-Day • Various

... the tepid stuff, they remounted, and Pete clambered up upon his saddle. While his pony stood motionless beneath him, he stood erect upon the leather seat. From this elevation, he scanned the horizon on every side. Far off to the southwest was sweeping a dun-colored curtain—the departing sand-storm, but that was all. Otherwise, the desert was ...
— The Border Boys Across the Frontier • Fremont B. Deering

... strong, my son. We are eagles, you and I. Your mother is a sparrow, gentle and dun-colored. I shall always remember her with tenderness. You want to go ...
— The Calm Man • Frank Belknap Long

... not attacked. The neighborhood just then seemed singularly free from malignant four-footed enemies armed with sharp teeth and nails. A dun-colored object just vanishing in a sink some little distance away Toby identified as an extra large fox that had been aroused from his noonday nap by the rustle of footsteps amidst the foliage, or the murmur of their lowered voices. No one made any attempt to interfere with the ...
— Jack Winters' Campmates • Mark Overton



Words linked to "Dun-colored" :   coloured, dun-coloured, colorful, colored



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