yellow-dunadj.n.
/ˌjɛlə(ʊ)ˈdʌn/, U.S. /ˌjɛloʊˈdən/ A. adj.
That is a yellowish shade of dun.
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the world > matter > colour > named colours > brown or brownness > [adjective] > yellowish brown
yellow-dun1593
honey-coloured1603
cinnamon-coloured1679
cinnamon1685
lurid1767
rhubarb1792
tombac-brown1794
sherry-bay1856
khaki1863
khaki coloured1879
golden oak1883
rhubarby1885
crotal1901
brown-gold1909
Sahara1923
safari1934
1593 G. Gifford Dialogue Witches sig. E She said she had a spirit in the likenes of a yellow dun catte.
1639 T. de Gray Compl. Horseman ii. iii. 59 The Horse which is Milke white, Yellow-dunne, Sanded, or Pie-bald.
1740 J. Williamson Brit. Angler i. vii. 123 Dubbing of the Fur of a yellow dun Cat.
1823 Morning Post 18 Dec. (advt.) To be sold..a very handsome Irish Pony of a yellow dun colour.
1910 Nature 15 Sept. 328/2 Now and again one sees a well-bred yellow-dun hunter.
2015 Press & Jrnl. (Aberdeen) (Nexis) 16 May (Business section) 10 Carlie Rafferty's seven-year-old yellow dun mare Margaret of Meggernie.
B. n.
1. A yellowish shade of dun.
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1607 G. Markham Cavelarice vii. 324 From these humours also come horsses colours, as from Choller comes bright Sorrels, Cole-blacks, and redde Chessenuts:..from Flegme, Milke-whites, and yellow Dunnes.
1610 G. Markham Maister-peece i. x. 26 His colour is either a milke white, a yellow dun, a kiteglewd or a pyedball.
1767 T. Bridges Homer Travestie (ed. 2) II. xii. 229 His geldings were a yellow dun.
1854 Economist 21 Oct. 702/2 Of eight cows, six were pure white, one was a light yellow dun, the other white, with light cream spots.
1941 E. Dick Vanguards of Frontier xx. 454 They were often a yellow dun in color, with a bony form.
2006 Rye & Battle Observer (Nexis) 23 Feb. These ponies mostly have harder colours of chocolate, black or yellow dun.
2. Angling. A yellow mayfly, esp. Heptagenia sulphurea; an artificial fly made in imitation of this.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > subclass Pterygota > [noun] > division Exopterygota or Hemimetabola > order Ephemeroptera > member of
drake-flya1450
hemeraa1592
ephemeron1626
ephemeran1643
ephemeraa1676
drake1676
grey drake1676
yellow-dun1676
greentail1681
grannom1787
ephemeral1817
shad-fly1825
ephemerid1872
1676 C. Cotton Compl. Angler v. 61 There is also a yellow Dun, the dubbing of Camels hair, and yellow Camlet, or wool mixt, and a white grey wing.
1705 W. S. Family Jewel iv. 13 The Violet Fly, the great whirling dun.., the yellow dun.
1832 E. Bulwer-Lytton Eugene Aram I. i. ix. 145 He..drew up his line, and replaced the contemned beauty of the violet-fly, with the novel attractions of the yellow-dun.
1837 J. Kirkbride Northern Angler 32 The Yellow Dun..makes its appearance on the northern rivers some time in May.
1917 Times 14 May 11/4 A small March brown with a silver body, a cochy bhonddu and a yellow dun, tied with a ginger hackle, are the best flies to use.
1979 Field & Stream Oct. 39/2 One of the really good-looking Yellow Duns was tied by an employee of the Yellow Breeches Fly Shop in Boiling Springs, Pennsylvania.
2004 M. Greenhalgh Fly-fisher's Handbk. (ed. 2) 50/1 Yellow Dun (Yellow May Dun) Heptagenia sulphurea. Widespread on rough, rocky rivers, occasionally rocky lakes.
3. A horse of a yellowish dun colour.
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the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > colour or marking > [noun] > grey or dun horse
dunc1405
greya1500
iron-grey?1530
grizzlea1620
yellow-dun1767
grullo1903
1767 T. Bridges Homer Travestie (ed. 2) II. xii. 230 No more this giddy headstrong boy Je' up'd his yellow duns to Troy.
1861 Bell's Life in London 24 Nov. 1/2 (advt.) Some well-matched pairs of blacks, bays, chesnuts, greys, and yellow duns.
1910 Nature 15 Sept. 328/2 The offspring of two unstriped yellow-duns may be bay or brown.
2003 G. Dellin Loner i. 4 He was a young boy..riding a lightning-fast yellow dun.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, January 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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adj.n.1593