burnt umber

noun

1. a brown pigment obtained by heating umber

2. a dark brown colour

Example Sentences

The color palate was most low-key tones of gray, oatmeal and burnt umber set off my mauve and lavender.

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Many of the mountains are flecked in burnt umber, because the dolomite can include hematite, like iron, and therefore rust.

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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.

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The painting is a pool of burnt umber, swirling around the placental red of the robes worn by the Virgin and one of the shepherds.

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Ultramarine and burnt umber combine into a distinctly sweet and mysterious black.

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