1839 C. Dickens ii. 7 The scanty box, and stunted everbrowns, and broken flower-pots..are scattered mournfully about.
1869 13 Jan. 125/1 The ivy had withered and the evergreens turned to everbrowns.
2006 J. Couper 183 The pine beetle and the spruce budworm are killing the evergreens that shoulder the road and turning them into everbrowns.