earthen

American  

[ur-thuhn] / ˈɜr θən /

adjective

1. composed of earth.

2. worldly.

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earthen British  

/ ˈɜːθən /

adjective

1. made of baked clay

   an earthen pot

2. made of earth

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Etymology

Origin of earthen

1175–1225; Middle English erthen, Old English eorthen. See earth, -en ²

Example Sentences

I was tired of that one room with its earthen floor tramped down by Ryan feet over the last hundred years.

From Literature

Or it could simply indicate that collectors feel safer splurging on a household-name artist like Rembrandt, a Renaissance man famed for his pensive, realistic self-portraits in earthen hues.

From The Wall Street Journal

Using a rich, bold palette, he depicted Islamic astronomers, philosophers, and desert wanderers with the same kinetic lines that defined his Indian art, but in warmer, earthen ochres reflecting the Gulf's landscape.

From BBC

What survives of this ancient city today includes two long rows of rectangular earthen mounds, each about a meter high.

From Science Daily

They constructed a 35-mile earthen berm around the city in an attempt to encircle its one million residents.

From The Wall Street Journal