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dun1 vb duns, dunning, dunned (Economics, Accounting & Finance / Banking & Finance) (tr) to press or importune (a debtor) for the payment of a debt n 1. (Business / Professions) a person, esp a hired agent, who importunes another for the payment of a debt 2. (Economics, Accounting & Finance / Banking & Finance) a demand for payment, esp one in writing [of unknown origin] dun2 n 1. (Fine Arts & Visual Arts / Colours) a brownish-grey colour 2. (Fine Arts & Visual Arts / Colours) a horse of this colour 3. (Individual Sports & Recreations / Angling) Angling a. an immature adult mayfly (the subimago), esp one of the genus Ephemera b. an artificial fly imitating this or a similar fly adj dunner, dunnest
1. (Fine Arts & Visual Arts / Colours) of a dun colour 2. dark and gloomy [Old English dunn; related to Old Norse dunna wild duck, Middle Irish doun dark; see dusk] ThesaurusLegend: Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
dun noun & adjective muddy coloured, khaki, brownish, mousy, greyish-brown her dun mare see shades of brown Translations dun [dʌn] adj → bigio/a, grigiastro/a dun [dʌn] adj → bigio/a, grigiastro/a How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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My son made a careful examination and sketch for me of a dun Belgian cart-horse with a double stripe on each shoulder and with leg-stripes; and a man, whom I can implicitly trust, has examined for me a small dun Welch pony with three short parallel stripes on each shoulder. This is the Leabhar Na h-Uidhre, or Book of the Dun Cow. A light snow was falling as they descended at the door, and in the morning, when Dorothea passed from her dressing-room avenue the blue-green boudoir that we know of, she saw the long avenue of limes lifting their trunks from a white earth, and spreading white branches against the dun and motionless sky. |
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