"brown study" meaning in All languages combined

{
  "categories": [
    {
      "kind": "other",
      "name": "Locutions nominales en anglais",
      "parents": [],
      "source": "w"
    },
    {
      "kind": "other",
      "name": "Anglais",
      "orig": "anglais",
      "parents": [],
      "source": "w"
    }
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "brown studies",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Anglais",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "pos_title": "Locution nominale",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Exemples en anglais",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Exemples en anglais à traduire",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Termes vieillis en anglais",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "Herman Melville, Moby-Dick, 1851",
          "text": "So gathering up the shavings with another grin, and throwing them into the great stove in the middle of the room, he went about his business, and left me in a brown study."
        },
        {
          "ref": "Arthur Conan Doyle, \"The Adventure of the Resident Patient\", 1893",
          "text": "Finding that Holmes was too absorbed for conversation, I had tossed aside the barren paper, and leaning back in my chair, I fell into a brown study. Suddenly my companion’s voice broke in upon my thoughts."
        },
        {
          "ref": "Lawrence Durrell, Livia, Faber & Faber 1992 (Avignon Quintet), p. 428, 1978",
          "text": "But Quatrefages glared at his plate in a brown study."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Mélancolie accompagnée d’une pensée profonde ; rêverie morose."
      ],
      "id": "fr-brown_study-en-noun-xKiyiYSB",
      "tags": [
        "dated"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "audio": "En-au-brown study.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/4/45/En-au-brown_study.ogg/En-au-brown_study.ogg.mp3",
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      "raw_tags": [
        "Australie"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "brown study"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "Locutions nominales en anglais",
    "anglais"
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "brown studies",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Anglais",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "pos_title": "Locution nominale",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Exemples en anglais",
        "Exemples en anglais à traduire",
        "Termes vieillis en anglais"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "Herman Melville, Moby-Dick, 1851",
          "text": "So gathering up the shavings with another grin, and throwing them into the great stove in the middle of the room, he went about his business, and left me in a brown study."
        },
        {
          "ref": "Arthur Conan Doyle, \"The Adventure of the Resident Patient\", 1893",
          "text": "Finding that Holmes was too absorbed for conversation, I had tossed aside the barren paper, and leaning back in my chair, I fell into a brown study. Suddenly my companion’s voice broke in upon my thoughts."
        },
        {
          "ref": "Lawrence Durrell, Livia, Faber & Faber 1992 (Avignon Quintet), p. 428, 1978",
          "text": "But Quatrefages glared at his plate in a brown study."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Mélancolie accompagnée d’une pensée profonde ; rêverie morose."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "dated"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
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      "raw_tags": [
        "Australie"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "brown study"
}