Dun-coloured means a dull brownish colour.

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Dear teachers,
Would you be kind enough to help me to understand the proper meaning of the term in bold in the following sentences?
I HEARD, once again for the first time, Richard Wagner's overture to the Mastersinger: it is a piece of magnificent, gorgeous, heavy, latter-day art, which has the pride to presuppose two centuries of music as still living, in order that it may be understood:--it is an honour to Germans that such a pride did not miscalculate!What flavours and forces, what seasons and climes do we not find mingled in it! It impresses us at one time as ancient, at another time as foreign, bitter, and too modern, it is as arbitrary as it is pompously traditional, it is not infrequently roguish, still oftener rough and coarse—it has fire and courage, and at the same time the loose, dun-coloured skin of fruits which ripen too late.
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Regards,
V.
Dun-coloured means a dull brownish colour.
Browny-grey to me.
This is a dun-coloured apple: http://www.ornamentaltree.co.uk/Images/egrrus.jpg
and this is another dun-coloured fruit: Medlar Tree 'Nottingham' (Mespilus germanica 'Nottingham')
It is a particular problem as so many men have slight "colour-blindness" which is comparatively rare in women. When dealing with graphic designers on book covers, one had to be very aware of the way in which they perceived colour. Designers who habitually used tertiary colours usually could be shown to have a colour perception deficit.
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