embrowned

English

From embrown +‎ -ed.

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; […]
  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”.

made brown — see browned

made dark or dusky — see darkened

embrowned

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