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A Writer's Dictionary:

brown study Definition


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brown study
noun
    now rather dated:
    literary:
    1. Deep thought; preoccupation.
    2. A state of absent-mindedness.
Etymology: 16c: apparently from an obsolete sense of brown as ‘gloomy'.



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