单词 | earth colour |
释义 | earth colourearth colorn.adj. A. n. 1. A pigment obtained from an earth (earth n.1 16), as an ochre or umber.Earth colours are very stable and typically contain iron oxide, either naturally occurring or added (see Mars n.1 Compounds 2). ΘΚΠ the world > matter > colour > colouring > colouring matter > [noun] > types of lac1558 purpurin1558 colourish1598 earth1598 watercolour1598 earth colour1658 encaustic1662 lake1684 virgin tint1706 mosaic gold1746 bronze1753 gold bronze1769 cake colour1784 musive gold1796 sap-colour1816 repaint1827 moist colour1842 bronze powder1846 wax-colour1854 wax pigment1854 bitumen1855 chrome garnet1876 zinc-dust1877 zinc-powder1881 terra nera1882 earth pigment1900 1658 W. Sanderson Graphice 82 Earth colours are best, as all Okers..Terre-vert. 1703 J. Elsum Art of Painting after Ital. Manner xxviii. 121 It [sc. Terravert] is the finest of Earth-colours. 1756 G. Smith tr. Laboratory (new ed.) II. xiv. 260 Whatever ornaments are painted on the front of a house, ought to be done with earth-colours, or in fresco, as..it will last longest. 1843 W. B. S. Taylor Man. Fresco & Encaustic Painting x. 185 In this valuable communication it will be seen that the earth colours stand best, whilst the blues..and the blacks..have faded. 1897 Jrnl. Anthropol. Inst. 26 159 The front is painted in a grotesque and effective manner, with red, white and yellow earth colours. 1913 N. Heaton Hurst's Man. Painters' Colours (ed. 5) v. 155 Iron oxide is also the colouring principle of the group of pigments known as ‘earth colours’. 1951 Oxf. Junior Encycl. VII. 325/1 Examples of such earth colours are yellow ochre, siennas (dark yellows), and umbers (browns). 2001 Galpin Soc. Jrnl. 54 433 Assuming the chocolate brown colour to be an earth colour (probably burnt umber) the border pattern would not be visible on the X-ray if it was orpiment. 2. The colour of earth; a brownish shade. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > colour > named colours > brown or brownness > [noun] > other browns umberc1568 Spanish brown1660 earth colour1688 raw umber1702 iron brown1714 clove-brown1794 raw sienna1797 wood-brown1805 moorit1809 coffee1815 oak1815 burnt almond1850 Vandyke brown1850 Turk's head1853 catechu brown1860 oak brown1860 mummy brown1861 walnut-brown1865 Havana1873 havana brown1875 wax-brown1887 box1889 nutria1897 caramel1909 wallflower brown1913 cigar1923 desert-brown1923 sunburn1923 tobacco1923 maple1926 butterscotch1927 walnut1934 snuff1951 mink1955 toffee1960 sludge1962 earth-tone1973 1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory ii. xiv. 328/2 It is of the colour of a Sparrow, white on the Belly, and of an Earth colour on the back. 1717 Atlas Geographus V. 263/1 The Skin is cover'd with red and black Spots, the rest being of an Earth Colour. 1787 J. Prestwich Respublica 27 A death's head in front, of an earth colour. 1837 H. H. Spry Mod. India I. 274 After exposing it [sc. soil] for some time to a strong fire, the only perceptible change was the conversion of the materials from an earth colour into a florid red. 1896 Auk 13 318 To two others [sc. wooden eggs] I gave a coat of earth-color all over, above and below. 1910 G. K. Chesterton What's Wrong with World iv. viii. 272 The brown earth-color of the monk's coat was instinctively chosen to express labor and humility. 1960 J. Cope Tame Ox 98 She was black, or more nearly a dark, dull, earth colour, a Mosuto girl. 2003 W. P. Spence Building your Dream House i. 112 The redwood siding provides an earth color. B. adj. = earth-coloured adj. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > colour > named colours > brown or brownness > [adjective] > brownish faucha1522 brownish1555 browny1582 brownish-coloured1685 earth colour1775 1775 S. J. Pratt Liberal Opinions I. 205 His head resembled a new ploughed field, only that the furrows were red instead of being earth-colour. 1859 Freemasons Mag. & Masonic Mirror 8 Oct. 263/2 Jupiter's image was earth colour,..ash green and fire colour. 1935 T. S. Eliot Murder in Cathedral i. 12 The labourer bends to his piece of earth, earth-colour, his own colour. 2005 N. Cortese et al. Modelling T-55 Main Battle Tank 63 I decided to try the ‘sponge effect’ using Citadel Black ink... Applied to the earth colour tracks, it gives a subtle, worn look. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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