Definition of Brownings

1. browning [n] - See also: browning

Lexicographical Neighbors of Brownings

brownest
browneye
brownface
brownfield
brownfields
brownian
brownian-Zsigmondy movement
brownian movement
brownie
brownie mix
brownier
brownies
browniest
browning
browning out
brownings (current term)
brownish
brownish-orange
brownish-red
brownish-yellow
brownish yellow
brownishly
brownishness
brownism
brownist
brownmillerite
brownness
brownnesses
brownnose
brownnosed

Literary usage of Brownings

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Great Folk of Old Marylebone by Margaret Baillie-Saunders (1904)
"If you told the story of the brownings in dates, it would still be a romance; as the story of a famine is told in statistics and remains a tragedy, ..."

2. At Home and Abroad: A Sketch-book of Life, Scenery and Men by Bayard Taylor (1872)
"THE brownings. FEW of the thousands who now place the poems of Elizabeth Barrett Browning in the niche devoted to their favorite authors, are aware that she ..."

3. John L. Stoddard's Lectures: Illustrated and Embellished with Views of the by John Lawson Stoddard (1898)
"... Machiavelli and Boccaccio — the brownings lived for several seasons on these heights, above the Tuscan city and its summer heat, extending hospitality ..."

4. A Survey of English Literature 1780-1880 by Oliver Elton (1920)
"CHAPTER XIV THE brownings IRRITABLE men of letters like Landor and Carlyle found to their relief that Browning 1 was unlike themselves, being in common ..."

5. Putnam's Magazine: Original Papers on Literature, Science, Art, and National by John Walter Osborne (1855)
"This should be enough to distinguish the season, but we should be glad to hear that the brownings had been stimulated into activity. ..."

6. Pen Pictures of Modern Authors by William Shepard Walsh (1882)
"THE brownings. Reminiscences of Miss Mitford and Miss Martineau—A day with the brownings at Pratolino—Hawthorne's two meetings with the poet and his wife. ..."

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