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brown study

noun

Etymology

From obsolete brown (“gloomy”) and study.

Definitions

  1. A melancholy mood accompanied by deep thought

    A melancholy mood accompanied by deep thought; a moody daydream.

    • Phædra. [...] Why Soſia! What, in a brown Study? / Soſia. A little cogitabund, or ſo; concerning this diſmal Revolution in our Family!
    • So gathering up the shavings with another grin, and throwing them into the great stove in the middle of the room, he went about his business, and left me in a brown study.
    • Finding that Holmes was too absorbed for conversation, I had tossed aside the barren paper, and leaning back in my chair, I fell into a brown study. Suddenly my companion's voice broke in upon my thoughts.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA