In brown holland blouse and sleeves rolled up to the elbows, he looked like a painter who has just laid down his brushes.
Less perilous but equally disagreeable was a visit to an unspeakably dirty harem - ‘I had only a brown holland galabieh and high riding-boots to the knee, but twenty fleas were discovered thereon’.
The doctor had no flannels, but he had brought a brown holland umbrella lined with green that he had acquired long ago in Algiers, and this served to give him something of the riverside quality.
Definition of brown holland in US English:
brown holland
noun
Unbleached holland linen.
（未经漂白的）荷兰亚麻布
Example sentencesExamples
Less perilous but equally disagreeable was a visit to an unspeakably dirty harem - ‘I had only a brown holland galabieh and high riding-boots to the knee, but twenty fleas were discovered thereon’.
In brown holland blouse and sleeves rolled up to the elbows, he looked like a painter who has just laid down his brushes.
The doctor had no flannels, but he had brought a brown holland umbrella lined with green that he had acquired long ago in Algiers, and this served to give him something of the riverside quality.