embrowned
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ɪmˈbɹaʊnd/, /ɛm-/
- (General American) IPA(key): /əmˈbɹaʊnd/, /ɛm-/
- Rhymes: -aʊnd
- Hyphenation: em‧browned
Adjective[edit]
embrowned (comparative more embrowned, superlative most embrowned) (chiefly literary and poetic)
- Made brown; browned.
- Made dark or dusky (“having a rather dark shade of colour”); darkened.
- 1867, Dante Alighieri, “Canto II”, in Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, transl., The Divine Comedy, volume I (Inferno), Boston, Mass.: Ticknor and Fields, →OCLC, page 7, lines 75–78:
- Day was departing, and the embrowned air / Released the animals that are on earth / From their fatigues; […]
Translations[edit]
made brown — see browned
made dark or dusky — see darkened
Verb[edit]
embrowned
- simple past and past participle of embrown