embrowned

English

Etymology

From embrown +‎ -ed.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ɪmˈbɹaʊnd/, /ɛm-/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /əmˈbɹaʊnd/, /ɛm-/
• Rhymes: -aʊnd
• Hyphenation: em‧browned

Adjective

embrowned (comparative more embrowned, superlative most embrowned) (chiefly literary and poetic)

1. Made brown; browned.
2. 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; […]

     The original Italian text is as follows: “Lo giorno se n’andava, e l’aere bruno / toglieva li animai che sono in terra / da le fatiche loro”.

Translations

made brown — see browned

made dark or dusky — see darkened

Verb

embrowned

1. simple past and past participle of embrown