Meaning

1 senses
  1. (uncountable, usually)A strong, coarse, brown-coloured paper, not heavily bleached and retaining more of the natural components of wood (especially lignin); commonly used in packaging.

Examples

7 sentences
  1. Put it in a brown paper bag.

    deLeg es in eine braune Papiertüte.

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  2. Tom packed his lunch in a brown paper bag.

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  3. Tom wrapped the package with brown paper.

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  4. The package was wrapped in brown paper.

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  5. Tom pulled out a sandwich from a brown paper bag.

    deTom holte aus einer braunen Papiertüte ein Butterbrot hervor.

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Forms

plural: brown papers
Singularbrown paper

uncountable

See also

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