wood_brown colors

Literary analysis:

The term "wood brown" is often used in literature to evoke earthy warmth and natural authenticity. Authors employ this color descriptor to capture both subtle and striking visual details across diverse subjects. For example, it is utilized to delineate gradations in nature—as when mushroom gills transition from grayish brown to wood brown [1] or when the delicate hues of a pileus shift from wood brown to fawn [2]—and to render objects with a tactile, weathered quality, such as a cask appearing wood brown due to prolonged submersion [3] or a box painted in a rich wood brown finish [4]. In art and design, wood brown is blended with other colors to achieve realistic skin tones [5] or to add depth to a variegated color scheme that includes warm sepia and cinnamon buff [6]. Even in fashion, a jumper described as wood brown highlights the color's versatile and evocative nature [7]. Additional texts integrate wood brown into broader color classifications and palettes [8, 9, 10, 11, 12], underscoring its enduring role in lending both descriptive precision and an organic, natural quality to literary imagery.

The gills are grayish brown to wood brown, at first adnate to slightly sinuate, then easily breaking away and appearing adnexed.
— from Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc. by George Francis Atkinson
The pileus is wood brown to fawn, clay color or isabelline color.
— from Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc. by George Francis Atkinson
It was a cask, its wood brown as if from long submersion and its hoops rusted into redness.
— from Traveling Companion Wanted by Richard Wilson
The box was painted a wood brown, with the words "Post-Office" in white over the top, and the numbers were also white.
— from The Blissylvania Post-Office by Marion Ames Taggart
In rendering dark complexions, a trifle of wood brown may be added to flesh No. 2, and this will give the requisite depth of colour.
— from Little Folks A Magazine for the Young (Date of issue unknown) by Various
The back, wings, and thighs are softly variegated with "warm sepia," "wood brown," and "cinnamon buff."
— from Life Histories of North American Shore Birds, Part 1 (of 2) by Arthur Cleveland Bent
She had dressed herself in a jumper of wood brown jersey, and a frilled blouse of white silk, with an orange colored tie.
— from The Turned-About Girls by Beulah Marie Dix
Ligneous -eus : wood brown [Vandyke brown].
— from Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology by John Bernhard Smith
Color Buffy Brown to Army Brown, dorsally; Wood Brown to Buffy Brown, ventrally (after Hatfield, op.
— from A Synopsis of the American Bats of the Genus Pipistrellus by E. Raymond (Eugene Raymond) Hall
Color between Buffy Brown and Wood Brown (after Hatfield, op.
— from A Synopsis of the American Bats of the Genus Pipistrellus by E. Raymond (Eugene Raymond) Hall
The colours are: two flesh tints, light and golden yellow, vermilion and carmine, blue, violet, purple, light and wood brown, green, and black.
— from Little Folks A Magazine for the Young (Date of issue unknown) by Various
The cuticle of the pileus is plain or torn into scales which are wood brown, or when close together they are often darker, sometimes nearly black.
— from Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc. by George Francis Atkinson

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