burnt umber
Britishnoun
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a brown pigment obtained by heating umber
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a dark brown colour
Example Sentences
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The color palate was most low-key tones of gray, oatmeal and burnt umber set off my mauve and lavender.
From Seattle Times • Jan. 14, 2023
He began the “Fantaisie” with mysterious, almost meterless delicacy, like the prelude to “Parsifal”; in the “Pastorale,” his palette extended to spicy burnt umber and milky pale blue, mellow oboe and sweetly piercing flute.
From New York Times • Jun. 8, 2022
And because nature is thrifty and likes to make the most of any useful substance, they were also the burnt umber in the wings of a passing butterfly.
From Washington Post • Sep. 20, 2019
There was cuttlefish sepia and burnt umber, but if Turner needed a loamy richness he reached for Mummy.
From The New Yorker • Aug. 27, 2018
The woman had a long, brooding oval face of burnt umber, with coarse graying black hair parted severely in the middle and combed back austerely behind her neck without curl, wave or ornamentation.
From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller
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