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In another gesture of respect, this time to Confucius, she chose to paint the galleries an ocherous yellow, because it is “the color of royalty and dynasty,” she said.

From New York Times • Mar. 20, 2010

He was to cure it of financial jaundice and infect it with another ocherous bug.

From Time Magazine Archive

These stiff hieratic forms are carved from cottonwood and then painted with pigments decocted from soot, blood, flowers and ocherous clays he gathers himself.

From Time Magazine Archive

Trees were thick with their foliage of ocherous green.

From "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" by Carson McCullers

Apparently the piece had then been placed in the hands of some person of infinite leisure equipped with a pot of ocherous paint, varnish, and a set of flexible combs.

From In the Days of the Comet by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)