brown study
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- (Vieilli) Mélancolie accompagnée d’une pensée profonde ; rêverie morose.
- 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. — (Herman Melville, Moby-Dick, 1851)
- 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. — (Arthur Conan Doyle, "The Adventure of the Resident Patient", 1893)
- But Quatrefages glared at his plate in a brown study. — (Lawrence Durrell, Livia, Faber & Faber 1992 (Avignon Quintet), p. 428, 1978)
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- Cette page utilise des informations de l’article du Wiktionnaire en anglais, sous licence CC BY-SA 4.0 : brown study. (liste des auteurs et autrices)