Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

brown studies

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.69 in modern English

Syllables: brown s-tud-ies
IPA

18

Scrabble Score

12

Letters

3

Syllables

11

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

plural of brown study

Example Sentences

"She was all right. The abuse she was suffering wouldn't hurt her. The bright sun would forget all about it. The smoggy sky would turn brown studies to gold. (What crap.)"
"Verville, author of Moyen de Parvenir, and others equally well known, among whom we will specially mention the Sieur Descartes, because he was a melancholy genius, and devoted himself more to brown studies than to drinks and dainties, a man of whom all the cooks and confectioners of Tours have a wise horror, shom they despise, and will not hear spoken of, and say, "Where does he live? if his name is mentioned."
"She was pensive, she drooped; more than once she sighed unromantically through her nose; she went off into brown studies;"

Questions

What does brown studies mean?: plural of brown study

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