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单词 earth colour
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earth colourearth colorn.adj.

Brit. /ˈəːθ ˌkʌlə/, U.S. /ˈərθ ˌkələr/
Forms: see earth n.1 and colour n.1
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: earth n.1, colour n.1
Etymology: < earth n.1 + colour n.1 With use as adjective compare earlier earth-coloured 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).
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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.
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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.
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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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