seal brown

a rich, dark brown suggestive of dressed and dyed sealskin.

Origin of seal brown

First recorded in 1880–85

seal-brown, adjective

Some are banded in seal-brown and amber, the surface having the lustrous, changeful effects of a cat's eye.

In the Open |Stanton Davis Kirkham
And just then the seal-brown figure strolled away, as serenely and impudently as she had come.

The Dust Flower |Basil King
When the tide is out the water is of a seal-brown color, due to the peat; when it is in, the color is bright green.

On an Irish Jaunting-car |Samuel G. Bayne
But there was no depth in his seal-brown eyes which always seemed to brood; no decision in any move of his ponderous body.

Then I'll Come Back to You |Larry Evans

That fellow is gorgeous with his seal-brown coat and old-gold vest; he is certainly a swell fish.

Harper's Young People, June 28, 1881 |Various

seal brown