burnt sienna
Americannoun
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sienna1
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an intense dark reddish-brown color.
noun
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a reddish-brown dye or pigment obtained by roasting raw sienna in a furnace
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a dark reddish-orange to reddish-brown colour
Etymology
Origin of burnt sienna
First recorded in 1835–45
Example Sentences
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“If I if I sell you a tube of ‘burnt sienna,’ that is God’s honest burnt sienna, dug up out of the ground, burned in an oven,” Cole says.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 21, 2021
The playwright meticulously unwraps his psychology, interrupting the churlish commentary with lush and tender descriptions of color, like the “magenta, crimson lake, viridian, burnt sienna, cinnabar green” he’s putting to use in a painting.
From New York Times ● Jan. 29, 2021
His palette ran to burnt umber, yellow ocher, burnt sienna, olive green.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 6, 2019
“The car’s like a burnt sienna color, maybe cayenne? But yeah, it’s in pretty bad shape. And that way, you’ll know she’s your ride.”
From Slate ● Feb. 1, 2017
He was darker than Mrs. Baylor—darker than a burnt sienna crayon.
From "It All Comes Down to This" by Karen English
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