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• s  of brown tinged with red

• Five years ago, in Rats, Lice and History, he traced with surprising charm the red-brown spots of typhus across world history.
• Bearded, sporting jeans and sneakers, with a bandanna tying back his shoulder-length red-brown hair and an earring dangling from his left ear, he comes on like some improbable .
• In every crevice of the red-brown rock there had been stuck wax candles, which now hung down in a limp fringe of greasy yellow tails, smeared with blood.

• reddish-brown
• mahogany-red

News & Articles

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• R.I. beach-goers report bug-like marine critters
  State officials told The Providence Journal the creatures are crustacean isopods, about a half-inch long and look like tiny red-brown shrimp.
  July 19, 2013 - Portland Press Herald

Quotes

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• Alan Ross in Rediff
  The pitch......was shaven bare and marled,wrote the Observer cricket writer Alan Ross. "The outfield, in contrast to the red-brown Suez Canal-coloured playing strip, was a rich oasis green."
• Richard Freeman in Environmental Graffiti (blog)
  Lead researcher, Richard Freeman, said: "Every eyewitness account and story we have heard describes exactly the same thing: a red-brown worm-like snake, approximately two feet long and two inches thick with no discernable head or back (tail)."