Browns

/braʊnz/ noun

Definition

The color brown, or plural of brown meaning shades of brown; can also be a sports team name (like the Cleveland Browns).

Etymology

From Old English 'brun,' related to burning or charring. The color was named for things that were burnt or oxidized, and remained a basic color term since ancient Germanic languages.

Kelly Says

Brown is one of the few colors without a corresponding verb in English—you can 'blue' something or 'green' something, but 'browning' only applies to cooking, not to making things the color brown, which shows an interesting gap in English!

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