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- noun Plural form of
umber .
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Examples
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Basso notes appeared with the introduction of deeper tones—dark purples and umbers, grays and even black.
Pushing Past Abstraction Eric Gibson 2011
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The hard part is applying the paint to your wall and having the finished job remotely resemble the dramatic burnt umbers, the flirtatious pinks, the forest greens that you thought were going to change your life, deliver a whole new you, make your friends realize that somewhere behind that bland façade lies a raging Michelangelo, or at least someone who could have been a successful interior decorator if you'd chosen that career path.
Painting Outside the Lines Ralph Gardner Jr. 2011
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The amount of time left for McCain to change the story and really start driving his umbers up is minimal.
Poll: Obama Holds Double-Digit Lead In Battleground States 2009
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The amount of time left for McCain to change the story and really start driving his umbers up is minimal.
Poll: Obama Holds Double-Digit Lead In Battleground States 2009
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Other favorites are rich umbers citrines, royals and emeralds.
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The concern is not only picking up the umbers and spreading them but it's been really hard for firefighters to get up in the air, to make any headway with this fire.
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Look at it again; those expert musses and swirls, the umbers and browns, the yellows and reds, that perfectly poised composition: it rises above and bears down upon the al-Hajar-ul-Aswad solidity of a black train engine that is very obviously motionless, stalled by the storm upon the bridge.
Turner’s ‘Rain, Steam and Speed’ (1844) Adam Roberts Project 2006
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Look at it again; those expert musses and swirls, the umbers and browns, the yellows and reds, that perfectly poised composition: it rises above and bears down upon the al-Hajar-ul-Aswad solidity of a black train engine that is very obviously motionless, stalled by the storm upon the bridge.
Archive 2006-11-01 Adam Roberts Project 2006
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The rock strata of the inner canyon changed from dark umbers and black shadows to immense bands of pastel yellow, white, green, and a hundred shades of red in the mysterious chemistry of twilight.
127 Hours Aron Ralston 2004
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The rock strata of the inner canyon changed from dark umbers and black shadows to immense bands of pastel yellow, white, green, and a hundred shades of red in the mysterious chemistry of twilight.
Between a Rock and a Hard Place Aron Ralston 2004
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