auburn
adjective
[ ˈɔːbən ]
• (of hair) of a reddish-brown colour.
Similar:
reddish brown,
red-brown,
dark red,
Titian,
Titian red,
tawny,
russet,
chestnut,
chestnut-coloured,
copper,
coppery,
copper-coloured,
rust-coloured,
rufous,
henna,
hennaed,
rufescent,
auburn
noun
• a reddish-brown colour.
Origin:
late Middle English: from Old French auborne, alborne, from Latin alburnus ‘whitish’, from albus ‘white’. The original sense was ‘yellowish white’, but the word became associated with brown because in the 16th and 17th centuries it was often written abrune or abroun .
