a. Obs. [Corruption of AUBURN, formerly often written abern, abron.]
1599. Solim. & Pers. (Hazlitt’s Dodsley, V. 363). Where is the eldest son of Priam, That Abraham-colour’d Trojan? Dead.
1607. Shaks., Coriol., II. iii. 21. Our heads are some browne, some blacke, some Abram, some bald [fol. of 1685 alters to auburn].
1627. Peacham, Compl. Gent., 155 (1661). I shall passe to the exposition of certain colours.—Abram-colour, i.e. brown. Auburne or Abborne, i.e. brown or brown-black.
