ochre
noun
ochreous
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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
Striped with vermilion on a ground of ochreous earth, with strange devices on the forehead and cheeks, it resembled a painted escutcheon more than a human face.
From The Yellow Chief by Mayne Reid
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 William S. Furneaux
Its colour is very variable, being either brown, olive, ochreous, or reddish; and it is notched or humped in such a manner that it exactly resembles a twig.
From Butterflies and Moths (British) by William S. Furneaux
