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sepia

[ see-pee-uh ]

noun

  1. a brown pigment obtained from the inklike secretion of various cuttlefish and used with brush or pen in drawing.
  2. a drawing made with this pigment.
  3. a dark brown.
  4. Photography. a print or photograph made in this color.
  5. any of several cuttlefish of the genus Sepia, producing a dark fluid used naturally for defense and, by humans, in ink.


adjective

  1. of a brown, grayish brown, or olive brown similar to that of sepia ink.

sepia

/ ˈsiːpɪə /

noun

  1. a dark reddish-brown pigment obtained from the inky secretion of the cuttlefish
  2. any cuttlefish of the genus Sepia
  3. a brownish tone imparted to a photograph, esp an early one such as a calotype. It can be produced by first bleaching a print (after fixing) and then immersing it for a short time in a solution of sodium sulphide or of alkaline thiourea
  4. a brownish-grey to dark yellowish-brown colour
  5. a drawing or photograph in sepia
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


adjective

  1. of the colour sepia or done in sepia

    a sepia print

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Other Words From

  • sepi·a·like adjective
  • se·pic [see, -pik, sep, -ik], adjective
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Word History and Origins

Origin of sepia1

1560–70; < Latin sēpia cuttlefish, its secretion < Greek sēpía; akin to sêpsis sepsis
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Word History and Origins

Origin of sepia1

C16: from Latin: a cuttlefish, from Greek; related to Greek sēpein to make rotten
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Example Sentences

Another upside of Readability mode is that you can also apply light, dark, and sepia themes, tweak things like font, text width, and line height, and use a slider to apply a greyscale layer to the page to reduce contrast.

A garnish isn’t required, but some chopped scallions, scattered on top, takes dinner from sepia to special.

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.

We were, apparently, a beacon in that sepia waste where modern undersea monsters were lurking.

Four, five or six eggs are laid; these are of a pale greenish-blue hue, speckled or flaked with sepia markings.

Fanning the bills out like a hand of cards he stared at their sepia and gold faces, trying to get the reality through his head.

Aquatint, a method of etching on copper by which a beautiful effect is produced, resembling a fine drawing in sepia or Indian ink.

Whistler showed him "several examples done with the brush in sepia, in old French or Spanish styles," whatever this may mean.

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