ochrous
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[edit]ochrous (comparative more ochrous, superlative most ochrous)
- Containing ochre.
- 1958, Henno Martin, translated by Edward Fitzgerald, The Sheltering Desert, Thomas Nelson & Sons, page 17:
- Ahead of us was a great ochreous depression over which a shifting heat haze trembled looking almost like blue smoke.
- Ochre-coloured; brownish-yellow.
- 1886, Thomas Hardy, chapter I, in The Mayor of Casterbridge[1]:
- […] they looked around for a refreshment tent among the many which dotted the down. Two, which stood nearest to them in the ochreous haze of expiring sunlight, seemed almost equally inviting.
- 1949, Henry Miller, chapter 23, in The Rosy Crucifixion, Book One: Sexus, New York: Grove Press, published 1965, page 498:
- The Lutheran Church across the way, which in the daylight was the color of baby shit, had now taken on a soft ochrous hue which blended serenely with the black of the asphalt.
- 1967, William Styron, The Confessions of Nat Turner, Vintage, published 2004, page 179:
- It was a Saturday, one of those dusty, ocherous autumnal days whose vivid weather never again seems so sweet and inviting after that youthful time of discovery [...].