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adjective

browned adj. Having a tan color from exposure to the sun; of skin color.

Synonyms: suntanned, tanned.

verb

Brown v. t. (past & past part. browned; pres. part. browning)

To make brown or dusky. "A trembling twilight o'er welkin moves, Browns the dim void and darkens deep the groves."

To make brown by scorching slightly; as, to brown meat or flour.

To give a bright brown color to, as to gun barrels, by forming a thin coat of oxide on their surface.

Brown v. i. To become brown.

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Etymology of 'Browned'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Browned" Quotes from Famous Books

... bread cut into fancy shapes, toasted or quickly fried in hot oil, or they may be spread with butter and browned in a quick oven. One slice only is used for each canap. The mixture is spread on top, the top garnished, and the ...

— Sandwiches • Sarah Tyson Heston Rorer

... drawn that unless one looked closely he would never suspect the weight of bone and muscle that his unobtrusive tweed suit covered. Piercing black eyes looked out from under shaggy brows. His face was lean and browned, and it took a second glance to realize the tremendous height and breadth of his forehead. A craggy jutting chin spoke of stubbornness and the relentless following up of a line of action determined on. His head was topped with an unruly ...

— Astounding Stories, May, 1931 • Various

... with kidney beans. " bien cuit, well done. " saignant, under done. Palais de Boeuf au gratin, broiled ox palate. Au gratin in cookery means "baked" or "broiled"; when applied to potatoes it means "browned." ...

— The South of France--East Half • Charles Bertram Black

... slightly to one side as he walks, but this does not interfere with his strength and activity nor detract from the distinguished and particularly graceful look of the man. His face, like Driscoll's, is sun-blackened rather than sun-browned; its general expression stern and grim, and when he is thinking and talking about the Boers (he talks about them just as Bois Guilbert did about the Saracens) this expression deepens into something positively ...

— With Rimington • L. March Phillipps

... for a sun-browned, bearded man had crossed the threshold, and thrown a paper into ...

— A Princess in Calico • Edith Ferguson Black

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