Definition of "brown water" [brown water]

• Shallow water. (noun)

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• "There they stopped beside the brown water, and there the brown water began to bubble and redden."
• "They swam through the murky brown water of the river, converging on the cobblestoned northern wall of the Seine, underneath the Charles de Gaulle Bridge."