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earthen

[ur-thuhn] / ˈɜr θən /


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Tell me about the earthen colors in your collections.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026

On the riverbank, local resident Ahmad Saadoun pointed at a temporary earthen bridge that collapsed.

From Barron's ● Jun. 2, 2026

Using a rich, bold palette, he depicted Islamic astronomers, philosophers, and desert wanderers with the same kinetic lines that defined his Indian art, but in warmer, earthen ochres reflecting the Gulf's landscape.

From BBC ● Dec. 6, 2025

What survives of this ancient city today includes two long rows of rectangular earthen mounds, each about a meter high.

From Science Daily ● Dec. 5, 2025

If an earthen jar leaked she did not, as other women did, cast it aside and talk of a new one.

From "The Good Earth" by Pearl S. Buck




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