Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see brown, eyed; having brown eyes. / Characteristic of or pertaining to people of color.

plural of brown note

(cooking, dated) A stew in which the meat is browned before being added / (cooking, Caribbean, Jamaica) A stew cooked or served with a brown-coloured sauce

(US) An open sandwich of turkey and bacon, covered in mornay sauce and baked or broiled until the bread is crisp and the sauce begins to brown.

(Britain) the perceived purchasing power of Britain’s Black and Asian minorities as a group

plural of brown teal

A member of the dabbling duck subfamily endemic to New Zealand; Anas chlorotis.

(mineralogy) A ferruginous variety of dolomite, in part identical with ankerite.

A brown resinous substance found in crude indigo.

(US) An archetypal drunkard.