sienna

[ see-en-uh ]

noun

1. a ferruginous earth used as a yellowish-brown pigment raw sienna or, after roasting in a furnace, as a reddish-brown pigment burnt sienna.
2. the color of such a pigment.

sienna

/ sɪˈɛnə /

noun

1. a natural earth containing ferric oxide used as a yellowish-brown pigment when untreated ( raw sienna ) or a reddish-brown pigment when roasted ( burnt sienna )
2. See burnt sienna
   the colour of this pigment See also burnt sienna

Word History and Origins

Origin of sienna¹

1750–60; < Italian ( terra di ) Sien ( n ) a (earth of ) Siena

Word History and Origins

Origin of sienna¹

C18: from Italian terra di Siena earth of Siena

Example Sentences

Also breaking: apparently, Delevingne and Sienna Miller are “schnoystering,” whatever that means.

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Dr. Sienna helpfully tells him “We see these occasionally in the medical field.”

From The Daily Beast

They came onto the scene in 2004, on the feet of boho-chic English style icons Sienna Miller and Kate Moss.

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Those targeted included Princes William and Harry, as well as senior politicians and the actors Hugh Grant and Sienna Miller.

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Actress Sienna Miller described paparazzi spitting at her to provoke a reaction they could photograph.

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He will return about the 10th of October to fetch me, and we all go on to Sienna, to my mother.

From Project Gutenberg

The female must content herself with burnt sienna back-covering which comes down onto her ochre-coloured belly.

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This may be colored with anything desired, like burnt sienna, annatto, or other coloring material.

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One day when Saint Catherine of Sienna was kneeling in the fuller's house, a dove as white as snow perched on the child's head.

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Some plain wooden armchairs were set against the walls that had been rough plastered and washed with burnt sienna brown.

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