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Definition of Snuff-brown
1. Adjective. Snuff colored; of a greyish to yellowish brown.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Snuff-brown
Literary usage of Snuff-brown
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Successful Housekeeper: A Manual of Universal Application, Especially by Milon W. Ellsworth, Tinnie Ellsworth (1882)
"SNUFF BROWN—DARK.—For five pounds of goods—camwood one pound; boil it fifteen
minutes, then dip goods for three-fourths hour; take out goods, add to the dye ..."
2. Final Report by New Jersey Geological Survey (1890)
"Top of head and hind-neck sooty black; basal portion of cutting edge of upper
mandible light colored; sides of head, fore-neck, &c., snuff brown in summer. ..."
3. Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History by Boston Society of Natural History (1871)
"... of a uniform snuff brown, speckled minutely with black, especially along the
costa. No basal line on fore wing; a prominent dusky, diffuse, ..."
4. The Birds of North and Middle America: A Descriptive Catalogue of the Higher by Robert Ridgway (1919)
"... a narrow loral streak and an irregular auricular spot of blackish; crown and
occiput mixed black and cinnamon- brown or light snuff brown, ..."
5. History of Northfield, New Hampshire 1780-1905: In Two Parts with Many by Lucy Rogers Hill Cross (1905)
"The wrens are little snuff-brown birds, usually found about stone walls, brush
heaps and ... The sexes are alike, snuff brown above, paler brown beneath, ..."
6. Handbook of Birds of the Western United States: Including the Great Plains by Florence Merriam Bailey (1902)
"Adult female : head and upper neck light snuff brown, neck with wide white or
gray collar ; belly white ; chest, sides, and shoulders gray ; wing dusky, ..."
7. Handbook of Birds of the Western United States: Including the Great Plains by Florence Merriam Bailey (1921)
"Adult female: head and upper neck light snuff brown, neck with wide white or gray
collar; belly white ; chest, sides, and shoulders gray; wing dusky, ..."
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