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brown study definition

brown study

a condition of being deep in thought; reverie

Etymology: orig., somber thought < early sense of brown, somber, gloomy

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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