ochreous
- a word derived from ochre.
Example Sentences
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His destination, a depression forty feet down into the flowing ochreous void, had in the past proved a honeypot.
From The New Yorker ● Mar. 5, 2017
The males were colored black, white and ochreous; the females were a little duller and streaked.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Buff Ermine has all four wings of a buff or ochreous tint, and spotted with black as here represented.
From Butterflies and Moths (British) by Furneaux, William S.
Some of the most vivid tints were taken from those fossils known as coprolites, in which small kernels of ochreous substance are found to exist.
From A Vendetta of the Desert by Scully, W. C. (William Charles)
The various brown or bronze-coloured grounds, so well known in the so-called “Batavian” porcelain, were obtained by coating the piece with a slip of some ochreous clay under the usual white glaze.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 6 "Celtes, Konrad" to "Ceramics" by Various
