sepia
Origin of sepia
Related Words for sepia
fawn, ginger, tan, toast, amber, brick, nut, buff, coffee, drab, dust, bronze, bay, ecru, beige, rust, copper, cinnamon, russet, puceExamples from the Web for sepia
Contemporary Examples of sepia
A sepia photo shows him as a young boy, head in his hands, with a large book open at a bar table.
Painting Moominvalley in sepia to save print costs in The Great Flood, Jansson somehow makes it a riot of imagined color.
Each of those women had a sepia photograph on the mantelpiece, of a young man in uniform.
Both play within a relatively constrained color palette rich in sepia yellow, with strategic daubs of sky blue and red.
With a book about Jane Franklin and her life of letters to her brother Benjamin, sepia yellow connotes yellowing papers.
Historical Examples of sepia
This sulphide will give tones which are sepia brown with most papers.
Bromide Printing and EnlargingJohn A. Tennant
The natural was made from a black earth, or from the secretion of the cuttle-fish, sepia.
Museum of AntiquityL. W. Yaggy
All derived from cuttle-fish varieties of sepia used for baits.
The Sailor's Word-BookWilliam Henry Smyth
This food is chiefly the Squid or Sepia octopus, known also by the name of the cuttle-fish.
Old JackW.H.G. Kingston
That a sepia photograph of the Coliseum, framed, is a work of art.
The American CredoGeorge Jean Nathan