ochre
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The rock art which the Lost Land Bridge Project has uncovered includes engravings on the cave walls, paintings in ochre and charcoal and line sketches indented into clay and earth by fingertips.
From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2026
These exchanges appear to have encouraged cultural growth, more complex social behavior, and innovations such as formal burials and the symbolic use of ochre for decoration.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 12, 2026
New Zealand's Ally Wollaston reeled in defending champion Noemi Ruegg with a blistering finish for back-to-back stage wins and hold on to her ochre leader's jersey in the Tour Down Under in Adelaide on Sunday.
From Barron's ● Jan. 18, 2026
Throughout his career, Lowry favored mostly five colors: ochre, blue, black, white and red.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 31, 2025
Then Torak saw that on the brown forehead, a shaky circle had been daubed in red ochre.
From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver
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 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
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
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
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