Meaning & use
gray-brown
Having a dull color that is a mixture of gray and brown.
See it in a sentence
The old barn had weathered to a soft gray-brown over many decades.
She described the bird's gray-brown feathers as almost the color of tree bark.
A note on using this word
Gray-brown is a compound color adjective, hyphenated when it appears directly before the noun it describes.
Words with a similar meaning
taupe
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