Of a dark brown colour.

Dark brown, dusky, fuscous.

= fusk, adj.

Of a dark brown colour.

Designating a soil which is predominantly dark brown or reddish brown in colour, and which typically contains moderate quantities of clay and…

(See quots.)

Natural History. Having colouring resembling a scorch.

Passing into a dark or dusky hue; ‘brownish; approaching to darkish brown in colour’ (New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon 1885).

the trade designation of a colour used for ladies' dresses.

burnt (colour), a deep shade of yellowish brown; so burnt-coloured adj.

In the furniture trade, designating wood of the colour of dark oak, or the colour itself; also denoting furniture made in mock-Jacobean style.

Of the colour of mocha coffee; dark brown.