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单词 umbered
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umberedadj.

Brit. /ˈʌmbəd/, U.S. /ˈəmbərd/
Forms: Also 1800s umbred.
Etymology: < umber n.3 + -ed suffix1.
Stained or painted with umber; made of a dark brown colour; embrowned, darkened. In some quots. the sense ‘shadowed, darkened by shade’ (cf. umber v.1) is possible.
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the world > matter > colour > named colours > brown or brownness > making or becoming brown > [adjective] > made brown
umbereda1616
well-browned1723
embrowned1739
browned1871
a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry V (1623) iv. 0. 9 Fire answers fire, and through their paly flames Each Battaile sees the others vmber'd face. View more context for this quotation
a1641 T. Heywood Captives (1953) ii. iii. 50 Ffayre ffresh and cleane they boathe appeare and not lyk gypsy vmberd.
1716 A. Pope tr. Homer Iliad II. viii. 706 Full fifty Guards each flaming Pile attend, Whose umber'd Arms, by fits, thick Flashes send.
1805–6 H. F. Cary tr. Dante Inferno iii. 110 Thus go they over through the umber'd wave.
1813 W. Scott Bridal of Triermain i. x. 28 Amid whose yawning gulfs the sun Cast umbered radiance red and dun.
1860 O. W. Holmes Elsie Venner (1891) xi. 154 The bistred or umbered beauties of mingled blood among whom he had been living.
1877 W. H. Mallock New Republic II. v. i. 232 A circular domed temple of umbred marble.
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