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Micheal
 Post subject: Research request
PostPosted: Wed Jan 19, 2011 1:07 pm 
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Not at home, Internet isn't helping. Looking for the type if nut, if it is a specific kind, of nut that the term nut-brown references.

Please note your source, OED would be preferred.

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 Post subject: Re: Research request
PostPosted: Wed Jan 19, 2011 1:09 pm 
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The OED wrote:
nut-brown, adj. and n.
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Pronunciation: Brit. /ˌnʌtˈbraʊn/ , U.S. /ˈnətˈbraʊn/
Forms: see nut n.1 and brown adj.(Show More)
Etymology: < nut n.1 + brown adj. Compare Dutch nootbruin, notebruin, German nussbraun... (Show More)
A. adj.
1. That is the colour of a ripe hazelnut; brown as a nut; of a warm reddish-brown colour.
The answer is, apparently, the Hazelnut.

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Khross beat me to it. I used a translator to get hazelnootbruin in Dutch and went from there.
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Thank you both.

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