ocher in English

noun
1
an earthy pigment containing ferric oxide, typically with clay, varying from light yellow to brown or red.
The palette is severely limited: blacks, grays, browns, and the acidic yellow ochre of the faces.

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1. Yellow ocher, viridian, raw umber, burnt umber, indigo.

2. He was still smiling, but his ocher eyes were serious.

3. Inside the cave, the artisans chipped and crushed the soft ocher stones.

4. 25 There were squares, oblongs, and triangles of crimson, vermilion, chartreuse, ocher, magenta, and canary.

5. Burnt sienna is an iron oxide earth pigment that resembles red ocher

6. Ribbons of red, green and ocher stone stretch across the canyon walls.

7. Painting can be arbitrary again for me, and this is when I try ocher with joy of success.

8. Buff is a mixture of yellow ocher and white: two parts of white lead and one part of yellow ocher produces a good Buff, or white lead may be tinted with French ochre alone.

9. He looked down, and then glanced up at me through his long black lashes, his ocher eyes scorching.

10. Before weddings, warriors and beaded girls prepare by applying makeup of red ocher and sheep fat.

11. Ocher and anthocyaninare the traditional painting, can not escape the color, I like it, I have resisted.

12. They rumbled through dry brush, the Comet an ocher dust storm lashed by branches and spiky shoots.

13. By midday they take on the color of bleached ivory, and the setting sun turns them a golden ocher.

14. These cave artisans had stones for pounding and grinding colorful dirt enriched with a kind of iron oxide to a powder, known as ocher.

15. Of special importance to the scientists who made the discovery, the ocher workshop showed that early humans, whose anatomy was modern, had also begun thinking like us.

16. They came only to work, collecting their hammer stones and grindstones nearby and the chunks of ocher from perhaps as far away as 12 miles.

17. Dr. Brooks noted this week that large quantities of ocher had been found elsewhere in Africa even before the 000-year-old workshop.

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19. From the absence of scattered animal and seafood bones, hearths and other evidence of typical living quarters, the archaeologists said, the ocher artisans did not occupy the cave for long periods.

20. Traces of ocher were left on the tools, and samples of the reddish compound were collected in large abalone shells, where the paint was liquefied, stirred and scooped out with a bone spatula.

21. The assumed symbolic role of red ocher, said Dr. Henshilwood, comes from the large amounts of the predominantly red material found at a number of African sites as old as 160[sentence dictionary], 000 years.

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23. Up to 10% cash back  · Asbolite, black oxid(e) of cobalt, asbolane, earthy cobalt, black (earthy) cobalt (ore), cobalt ocher, cobalt ochre [It carries as much as 32 per cent of cobalt] Erdkobalt n, Kobaltschwärze f, Kobaltmulm m, schwarzes Kobaltarsenik n, erdiges Kobalt, Kobaltmanganerz n, schwarzes (Erd)Kobalt, Asbolan m, Asbolit m, Kobaltocker m