nutbrown

Adjective

WordNet 3.0

Adjective (1)

  1. of the color of nuts“nutbrown hair”
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Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)

Nut-brown \Nut"-brown`\, a. Brown as a nut long kept and dried. "The spicy nutbrown ale." --Milton. [1913 Webster]
brunet \bru*net"\, Brunette \Bru*nette"\, adj.

1.being or having dark-colored skin and hair; contrasted with blond. [Narrower terms: adust, sunburned burned brown by the sun; black, brown; black-haired, dark-haired; browned, suntanned, tanned; grizzled, roan; nutbrown] [WordNet 1.5] brunet

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