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dun, adj: dun, brown or black coloured, dark. (DUN / ˈdʌn)

Medieval manuscript image of a boar wearing spectacles, seated before a distaff on a stand, holding the cord to a spindle with its foot.
Book of Hours. Belgium, possibly Brussels, c. 1475. Morgan Library, MS M.485 fol. 165v. Source: Morgan Library.

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