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Rich and beautiful as it is, purple madder cannot be called brilliant; while Mars violet is, of course, ochrous.

From Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists by Salter, Thomas

The basis consists partly of a streaked, ochrous earth, and in part of sand, concreted with particles of iron ore.

From A Voyage to Terra Australis — Volume 2 by Flinders, Matthew

In the opening stood her husband, painted all over with a red ochrous earth, and his head and breast ornamented with the white down of birds.

From Narrative of the surveying voyages of His Majesty's ships Adventure and Beagle, between the years 1826 and 1836 Volume I. - Proceedings of the First Expedition, 1826-1830 by Fitzroy, Robert

A yellow-brown, so yellow that it might fairly have been classed with the ochrous colours of that denomination, is made by combining zinc with another metal by the aid of heat.

From Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists by Salter, Thomas

What we have succeeded in producing, and the genuine samples we have met with, have been fawns, buffs, drabs, &c., decidedly "ochrous" yellows, and wanting in stability.

From Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists by Salter, Thomas