red ochre

British

noun

any of various natural red earths containing ferric oxide: used as pigments

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A woman with long nut-brown hair, one lock at the temple matted with red ochre.

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After that, she’d made a little box of folded rowan bark, and smeared it with wormwood and red ochre.

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The dead man had worn his long brown hair loose, except for a single lock at the temple, matted with red ochre.

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Then Torak saw that on the brown forehead, a shaky circle had been daubed in red ochre.

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He tipped some red ochre onto his palm, and spat on it.

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