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Tattoo is one example (I understand the ocre was a big trade item in human pre-civilizations.
MND: Your Daily Dose of Counter-Theory Paul Elam 2010
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Tattoo is one example (I understand the ocre was a big trade item in human pre-civilizations.
MND: Your Daily Dose of Counter-Theory Paul Elam 2010
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As for the rhetoric, the fight goes right to the ocre of the greatest debate of the last 150 years.
American Mugabe?, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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Vermelhos sobre verde e ocre; sob oceano transparente.
... Artur 2006
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Ficava nas margens de um rio, tinha arranha-céus brancos e ruas labirinticas, pontes de ferro ocre e fábricas com as chaminés corroídas.
O Quetzal Sonhador IV/V Artur 2005
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Body painting must have spread through communities like a fad, and the demand for ocre must have made it valuable to those who knew how to mine for its constituent minerals.
MND: Your Daily Dose of Counter-Theory Paul Elam 2010
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As I plunge the broom handle into the pile of burnt sienna and ocre I'm thinking - how did this happen?
Aspen Times - Top Stories Staff Writer 2010
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As I plunge the broom handle into the pile of burnt sienna and ocre I'm thinking - how did this happen?
Aspen Times - Top Stories Staff Writer 2010
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Velvet comes in four colors - ocre, purple, red, and teal.
Fashion World of SL iheartsl.com 2010
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Velvet comes in four colors - ocre, purple, red, and teal.
Fashion World of SL iheartsl.com 2010
madmouth commented on the word ocre
"The first ingredient you add to the soup must be some dried ocre (a West India vegetable), the quantity according to your judgment." (The Lady's Own Cookery Book)
Seems to be a variant of okra
November 9, 2010