Of persons: Having the skin of a brown or dusky colour. as an individual peculiarity among ‘white’ races; either natural (dark-complexioned…

That is the colour of a ripe hazelnut; brown as a nut; of a warm reddish-brown colour. Of a person, in respect of complexion. Esp. in nut-brown maid.

Expressing the result. Of persons, their countenances, etc.: Bronzed, coarsened, toughened, hardened by exposure to all kinds of weather.

That has been rendered brown or tawny, esp. by exposure to the sun; sunburnt.

adjs. from A. 3, or B, chiefly parasynthetic, as tan-coloured, tan-faced, tan-sailed, tan-skinned, tan-tinted.

adjs. from A. 3, or B, chiefly parasynthetic, as tan-coloured, tan-faced, tan-sailed, tan-skinned, tan-tinted.

That tans.

That is tanned or browned by exposure to the sun or a sunlamp.

Of a person or the skin: deeply suntanned.

Bronze-coloured, browned, sunburnt.

Of the colour of tan or of tanned leather; of a yellowish or reddish brown; tawny; bronzed, sunburnt. Also: (rare) black, dark-skinned.