ocherous
- a word derived from ocher.
Example Sentences
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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
He thought of the inexplicable place of her birth and of the riven, unsubstantial figure of the man with the blood pulsing into his ocherous face.
From Wild Oranges by Hergesheimer, Joseph
