Mummy brown

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a brown color, nearly intermediate in tint between burnt umber and raw umber. A pigment of this color is prepared from bitumen, etc., obtained from Egyptian tombs.

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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by G. & C. Merriam Co.

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chukker-brown
mummy-brown
snuff
snuff-brown

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From there, the Nile, its floodplain's cord of malachite stretching across that mummy brown to the horizon, simply transports .

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