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burnt sienna

[burnt see-en-uh] / ˈbɜrnt siˈɛn ə /


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“If I if I sell you a tube of ‘burnt sienna,’ that is God’s honest burnt sienna, dug up out of the ground, burned in an oven,” Cole says.

From Washington Post • Dec. 21, 2021

Always consistent, with their burnt sienna coating and powdered onion and garlic flavor, and always delicious.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 12, 2019

“The car’s like a burnt sienna color, maybe cayenne? But yeah, it’s in pretty bad shape. And that way, you’ll know she’s your ride.”

From Slate • Feb. 1, 2017

Something tasteful, cedar with a burnt sienna stain, to surround the back yard of his home in the 500 block of Central Avenue West, where he’d lived for more than a decade.

From Washington Times • Sep. 10, 2016

He was darker than Mrs. Baylor—darker than a burnt sienna crayon.

From "It All Comes Down to This" by Karen English




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