ochred

Then his arm was stretched out so that his hand rested on the red-ochred pubic region of the other.

The Plains of Passage Auel, Jean M. 1990

Among other things which lay strewed about here, were a spearshaft, eight feet in length, recently made and ochred; parts of old canoes, fragments of their skin-dresses, &c.

The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 387, August 28, 1829 Various

The smoke swirled and eddied out into the room and hung about the ochred walls, and made more umber than it was before the map of

Gilian The Dreamer His Fancy, His Love and Adventure Neil Munro

The paint was green, the curtains blue, the window sills and step red-ochred, while a ridiculous little green dog kennel stood beside the door.

Flowers for the Judge Allingham, Margery, 1904-1966 1934

It was gloomy and old - fashioned, having low dark shops and dark green house doors with brass knockers, and yellow-ochred doorsteps projecting on to the pavement; then another old shop whose small window looked like a cunning, half-shut eye.

Sons and Lovers 1913

It was gloomy and old-fashioned, having low dark shops and dark green house doors with brass knockers, and yellow-ochred doorsteps projecting on to the pavement; then another old shop whose small window looked like a cunning, half-shut eye.

Sons and Lovers 1907

Calais fishers, with painted sabots, and ochred trousers.

The Lord of the Sea 1906

As though poor Azoka had not enough misery, her mother took away her trinkets to decorate the bear, and forced her to smear her pretty, ochred face with cinders.

Fort Amity Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903

"She looks as though she had been red-ochred down to her shoulders."

Stella Fregelius Henry Rider Haggard 1890

It stretches from the Atlantic shore through the whole width of Brazil into Peru, to the very foot of the Andes -- one vast extent of red sandstone, capped by a yellow-ochred clay; not only along the banks of the main river, but forming the sides of those of its tributaries, to their far-off sources, probably over the whole basin of the Paraguay and the Rio de la Plata.

The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America William Henry Giles Kingston 1847