Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A special clay containing iron and manganese oxides, used as a pigment for oil and watercolor painting.
- noun Raw sienna.
- noun Burnt sienna.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A ferruginous ocherous earth, fine and smooth, used as a pigment in both oil and water-color painting.
- noun The color of sienna pigment.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Chem.) Clay that is colored red or brown by the oxides of iron or manganese, and used as a pigment. It is used either in the raw state or burnt.
- noun sienna made of a much redder color by the action of fire.
- noun sienna in its natural state, of a transparent yellowish brown color.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun a form of
clay containing iron and manganese. - noun a
pigment with areddish -brown colour . - noun a light reddish-brown colour.
- adjective having a reddish-brown colour.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun an earth color containing ferric oxides; used as a pigment
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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This beautiful bag includes inside zipper and open pockets, an open outside pocket, a top zipper closure, an adjustable shoulder strap and comes in sienna, brown, or black.
Designer Amy Hall Brings Her Unique Vision To AmyKathryn Handbags 2007
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The markings are large blotches and spots, often forming zones or caps about the larger end, where they seem almost always to be most conspicuous, as they vary in colour from an intense burnt-sienna which is almost black, through a dingy maroon, and again to a dull, somewhat pale reddish brown; here and there individual eggs exhibit a hair-line or two, or a hieroglyphic-like mark, but these are the exceptions.
The Nests and Eggs of Indian Birds, Volume 1 Allan Octavian Hume 1870
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I, for one, think his burnt sienna skin goes perfectly with his plasticine Ken-doll haircut.
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I grind pigments using a mortar and pestle the way painters used to ground lapis lazuli, burnt sienna, and cerulean blue centuries ago.
The Memory Palace Mira Bartók 2011
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Bernal, Querétaro is a delightfully charming 16th century colonial village, whose buildings are painted in the colors of a Mexican sunset - ocher, soft yellow, sienna, rich orange and dusty rose.
The magic of Bernal, Queretaro: wine, opals and historic charm 2009
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I grind pigments using a mortar and pestle the way painters used to ground lapis lazuli, burnt sienna, and cerulean blue centuries ago.
The Memory Palace Mira Bartók 2011
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I grabbed my favorite crayon, burnt sienna, and started writing:
The Dark Side of Innocence Terri Cheney 2011
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Projected Color scheme: a medium reddish brown sienna for the hulls with a brown wash.
Uncharted Seas Project: A New Fleet « Third Point of Singularity 2009
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I grabbed my favorite crayon, burnt sienna, and started writing:
The Dark Side of Innocence Terri Cheney 2011
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Of course, this vixen would carry only the essentials to get around town, and for that there's a burnt sienna camera bag to swing from the wrist.
The Look of Spring 2012
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