nut-brown

Etymology
From, equivalent to.

Adjective

 * 1) Brown as a ripe and dried nut.
 * , , (1883), Chapter 1:
 * I remember him as if it were yesterday, as he came plodding to the inn door, his sea-chest following behind him in a hand-barrow; a tall, strong, heavy, nut-brown man; his tarry pigtail falling over the shoulders of his soiled blue coat; his hands ragged and scarred, with ​black, broken nails; and the sabre cut across one cheek, a dirty, livid white.
 * I remember him as if it were yesterday, as he came plodding to the inn door, his sea-chest following behind him in a hand-barrow; a tall, strong, heavy, nut-brown man; his tarry pigtail falling over the shoulders of his soiled blue coat; his hands ragged and scarred, with ​black, broken nails; and the sabre cut across one cheek, a dirty, livid white.