| 单词 | liver-brown |
| 释义 | > as lemmasliver-brown liver-brown adj. and n. (a) adj. of the brown colour of the liver, dark brownish red; (b) n. this colour. ΚΠ 1770 G. von Engeström & E. M. da Costa tr. A. F. Cronstedt Ess. Syst. Mineral. 191 This is sometimes as red as sealing-wax, and sometimes of a more liver-brown colour. 1776 R. E. Raspe tr. J. J. Ferber Trav. Italy 224 Porfido bruno, brown, with oblong greenish spots... There are two varieties. a. Liver-brown, and fair green spots... b. Black-brown, with spots half black and half green. 1794 J. G. Schmeisser Syst. Mineral. I. 295 Its colour is liver brown, or blackish brown; it resembles wood. 1849 D. Campbell Pract. Text-bk. Inorg. Chem. 107 When protosulphide is fused with rather more than its weight of sulphur a liver brown mass is obtained. 1961 H. H. T. Jackson Mammals of Wisconsin 185 The general color above is drabbish liver brown to light chestnut brown. 2004 S. Hall Electric Michelangelo 78 It was a ten-minute walk to Pedder Street, give or take, having climbed from the washroom window out into a liver-brown night whose character made his belly turn. < as lemmas |
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