Usually means: Paint made from mummified remains.
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  1. mummy brown: Merriam-Webster
  2. mummy-brown: Vocabulary.com
  3. mummy brown: Wordnik
  4. mummy brown: Wiktionary
  5. Mummy brown, mummy-brown: Dictionary.com
  6. Mummy brown: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  7. mummy-brown: Rhymezone
  8. mummy-brown, mummy brown: FreeDictionary.org
  9. mummy-brown: Mnemonic Dictionary
  10. Mummy brown, mummy-brown: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. mummy-brown: Encyclopedia

Definitions from Wiktionary (mummy brown)

noun:  (painting, historical) A brown pigment originally prepared from the ground-up remains of Egyptian animal or human mummies mixed with bitumen, etc.
noun:  The colour of this pigment, a variable brown intermediate between raw umber and burnt umber.

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