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In a brown study, c. 1 530: Dice Play, 6 (Percy S.), Lack of company will soon
lead a man into a brown study. 1591: Greene, in Works, x 17 (Grosart), Halfe in a
browne study at this strange salutation. 1646: Quarles, Shep. Oracles, egl. xi, In a
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George Latimer Apperson, Martin H. Manser, Stephen J. Curtis,
2005
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Early American Proverbs and Proverbial Phrases
1813 Jackson Correspondence 1.424: It was soon discovered that . . . they had
taken the stud, had changed their course and were actually marching
homewards, 1814 435. DA stud n1 Ib. 5498 To be in a brown Study 1718 Mather
Letters 254: ...
Bartlett Jere Whiting,
1977
Songe-creux, one that's in his dumps, or in a brown study. — Id. At last breaking
out of a brown study, he cried out, Conclusum est contra Manicha'os. — Howell,
Familiar Letters, bk. iii. 8 (1646). They live retir'd, and then they doze away their ...
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Tom
Brown's School Days: By an Old Boy
They had done their work for first lesson, and Tom was in a brown study,
brooding, like a young William Tell, upon the wrongs of fags in general, and his
own in particular. “I say, Send,” said he at last, rousing himself to snuff the candle,
“what ...
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Chambers concise dictionary
2 a building made using brownstone. brown study > n, dated or literary (usu be in
a brown study) 1 deep thought; preoccupation. 2 a state of absent- mindedness. [
16c: apparently from an obsolete sense of BROWN as 'gloomy'] brown sugar ...
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(a) suspicious (b) secret (c) servile (d) strict 4. They are sure to steal a march
upon their competitors. (a) outshine (b) defy (c) challenge (d) resist 5. He was in a
brown study and did not seem to catch my point. (a) in his study room (b)
absorbed ...
'One is said to be in a brown study when one is concentrating so hard on some
inner thought that one does not notice what is going on around one and does not
respond when spoken to. 'The Athenian version is that at the Battle of Marathon, ...
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Chambers Universal Learners' Dictionary
'brownness nu. a brown study (formal) deep thought : She 's in a brown study
today (= She pays no attention to what you say). browned off (in/: usupred) 1
bored: I feel really browned off in this wet weather. 2 annoyed: I'm browned off
with his ...
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Chembers 21 Century Dictionary
2 a house or building made using brownstone. brown study o noun, now rather
dated or literary (usually be in a brown study) 1 deep thought; preoccupation. 2 a
state of absent-mindedness. © 1 6c: apparently from an obsolete sense of ...
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Oxford Dictionary of English Idioms
From this, an extended sense of 'gloomy or serious' developed and it is
apparently from this sense that we get the phrase in a brown study. 2001 New
York Review ofBooks When he isn't stirring up mischief, or conniving for gold, or
composing ...
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Moping on a broomstick
Neverout: Why, Miss, you are in a brown study, what's the matter? Methinks you look like mumchance, that was hanged for saying nothing. «OUPblog, Dec 14»
A Study in Brown and in a Brown Study, Part 3
A Study in Brown and in a Brown Study, Part 3. Word Origins and How We Know Them. Anatoly Liberman's column on word origins, The Oxford ... «OUPblog, Oct 14»
Rembrandt: The Late Works review – dark, impassioned …
Convention has him as an artist perpetually alone in a brown study, perhaps because he comes before us this way in the self-portraits, but even ... «The Guardian, Oct 14»
A Study in Brown and in a Brown Study, Part 2
A Study in Brown and in a Brown Study, Part 2. Word Origins and How We Know Them. Anatoly Liberman's column on word origins, The Oxford ... «OUPblog, Oct 14»
A Study in Brown and in a Brown Study, Part 1
A Study in Brown and in a Brown Study, Part 1. Word Origins and How We Know Them. Anatoly Liberman's column on word origins, The Oxford ... «OUPblog, Sep 14»
Living in an Imaginary World
Most people spend between 30 and 47 percent of their waking hours spacing out, drifting off, lost in thought, woolgathering, in a brown study or ... «Scientific American, Mai 14»
Stanley Spencer In Des Hughes Exhibition At MAG
In a Brown Study (2011) is a collection of diverse objects which draw inspiration from other artworks, presented within a 'framed screen'. «Manchester Confidential, Mai 12»
BACK TO A LAIDBACK WORLD
... pouting mouths and a languid glaze, and like their counterparts in Kalighat pats and popular prints, are mostly either in a brown study or are ... «Calcutta Telegraph, Ian 12»
The sari girls
One of the most famous ones was of a lovely Bengali woman in a brown study lolling on her bed with her long black tresses caressing her ... «Calcutta Telegraph, Apr 11»