Spanish brown

English

Noun

Spanish brown (countable and uncountable, plural Spanish browns)

1. A kind of earth used in painting, having a dark reddish-brown colour due to the presence of sesquioxide of iron.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “Spanish brown”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)