mummy brown (English, noun)
expansion: mummy brown (usually uncountable, plural mummy browns)
Senses:
qualifier: painting
glosses: A brown pigment originally prepared from the ground-up remains of Egyptian animal or human mummies mixed with bitumen, etc.
tags: historical
uncountable
usually
glosses: The colour of this pigment, a variable brown intermediate between raw umber and burnt umber.
tags: uncountable
usually
Forms:
form: mummy browns
tags: plural