Word info

brown paper

Noun

Meaning

brown paper (usually uncountable, plural brown papers)

A strong brown paper used in packaging.

Source: en.wiktionary.org

Examples

I have these large pieces of recycled brown paper stretched on my apartment wall and when I am not doing anything fashion-related, I'm drawing on it, playing with colour spectrums. Sasha Pivovarova

Not a red rose or a satin heart. I give you an onion. It is a moon wrapped in brown paper. It promises light like the careful undressing of love...I am trying to be truthful. Carol Ann Duffy

I think I'm right-brained, incapable of managing my way out of a brown paper bag. Jeremy Grantham

Touch was important. The evening of the Third of July we would go around the neighborhood and look at the fireworks others had bought, taking them out of the brown paper sack and handling them cautiously as if they were precious stones. There was envy when we saw sacks with more in them than we had. Paul Engle

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