ochre
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He listened impassively to the reparations order, dressed in an ochre robe and a traditional white scarf.
From Barron's ● Apr. 28, 2026
One striking feature of the cave is the widespread use of mineral pigments, especially ochre.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 12, 2026
Vine, having been knocked down, used a team-mate's bike to claim the overall winner's ochre jersey by one minute three seconds for UAE Team Emirates-XRG.
From BBC ● Jan. 25, 2026
Throughout his career, Lowry favored mostly five colors: ochre, blue, black, white and red.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 31, 2025
“At the tip of Spain. And over there—” She pointed south, to a more distant stretch of red and ochre hills.
From "The Mark of Athena" by Rick Riordan
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He saw a small, brick- paved yard, in which trim myrtles and flowering plants stood about in freshly ochred pots, and, opening the door a little wider, he slipped in and closed it behind him.
From Sentence Deferred Sailor's Knots, Part 4. by Will Owen
The smoke swirled and eddied out into the room and hung about the ochred walls, and made more umber than it was before the map of Europe over the fireplace.
From Gilian The Dreamer His Fancy, His Love and Adventure by Neil Munro
Among other things which lay strewed about here, were a spear-shaft, eight feet in length, recently made and ochred; parts of old canoes, fragments of their skin-dresses, &c.
From Report of Mr. W. E. Cormack's journey in search of the Red Indians in Newfoundland by W. E. (William Epps) Cormack
Among other things which lay strewed about here, were a spearshaft, eight feet in length, recently made and ochred; parts of old canoes, fragments of their skin-dresses, &c.
From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 387, August 28, 1829 by Various
He saw a small, brick-paved yard, in which trim myrtles and flowering plants stood about in freshly ochred pots, and, opening the door a little wider, he slipped in and closed it behind him.
From Sailor's Knots (Entire Collection) by W. W. (William Wymark) Jacobs