earthen

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Or it could simply indicate that collectors feel safer splurging on a household-name artist like Rembrandt, a Renaissance man famed for his pensive, realistic self-portraits in earthen hues.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 4, 2026

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

They constructed a 35-mile earthen berm around the city in an attempt to encircle its one million residents.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 31, 2025

It smells like a kitchen — earthen, dry, airy with a hint of spice and pepper.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 20, 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