embrownedとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ɪmˈbɹaʊnd/, /ɛm-/
• (General American) IPA: /əmˈbɹaʊnd/, /ɛm-/
• 韻: -aʊnd
• ハイフネーション: em‧browned

形容詞

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

1. Made brown; browned.
   • 1893, The Nineteenth Century and After: A Monthly Review (page 502)

     The sun-flakes by multitudes lie, / Shed loose as the petals of roses discrowned / On the floors of the forest engilt and embrowned / And reddened afar and anigh.

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”.

動詞

embrowned

1. simple past and past participle of embrown