LIGHT BROWN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does light brown mean? 

• LIGHT BROWN (noun)
  The noun LIGHT BROWN has 1 sense:

1. a brown that is light but unsaturated

  Familiarity information: LIGHT BROWN used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LIGHT BROWN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A brown that is light but unsaturated

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Hypernyms ("light brown" is a kind of...):

brown; brownness (an orange of low brightness and saturation)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "light brown"):

tan; topaz (a light brown the color of topaz)

dun; fawn; grayish brown; greyish brown (a color or pigment varying around a light grey-brown color)

beige; ecru (a very light brown)

 Context examples 

Skin which is light brown and it rarely burns when exposed to the sun.

(Fitzpatrick Skin Type IV, NCI Thesaurus)

He was a good-sized man, this Brummell, with a long, fair face, light brown hair, and slight sandy side-whiskers.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A light brown, sharply demarcated skin patch.

(Cafe Au Lait Patch, NCI Thesaurus)

Skin lesions are often irregular and may be pink, red, or have light brown, tan, or gray at the edges.

(Amelanotic melanoma, NCI Dictionary)

In spite of the light brown dustcoat and leather-leggings which he wore in deference to his rustic surroundings, I had no difficulty in recognising Lestrade, of Scotland Yard.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

She was wrapped in a long ulster, for the morning was raw; and I could see nothing but her face and a mass of light brown hair escaping from under the seaman’s cap on her head.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

A boy’s cap was perched on her head, and her hair, light brown and arranged in a loose and fluffy order that caught the sun, seemed an aureole about the delicate oval of her face.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)