sepian.

Brit.

/ˈsiːpɪə/, U.S.

/ˈsipiə/

Forms: Also 1500s–1600s sæpia, 1800s seppia.

Etymology: < Latin sēpia, < Greek σηπία. The Latin word gave Italian seppia , French sèche , Spanish jibia , Portuguese siba ; French sépia in sense 2 is from Italian, as is probably also the English word in that sense.

1. The cuttlefish; now rare exc. Zoology a cuttle of the genus Sepia or family Sepiidæ; also, the genus itself.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > class Cephalopoda > [noun] > order Dibranchiata > section Decapoda > family Sepiadae > member of

cuttlec1000

seggec1300

polypus?1527

scuttle1530

sepia1569

cuttlefish1591

inkhorn fish1598

ozaena1601

sea-cat1601

sea-cut1601

sound1611

scribe1655

sea-qualm1804

sepiacean1842

sepioid1857

sea-sleeve1867

1569 J. Sanford tr. H. C. Agrippa Of Vanitie Artes & Sci. 10 b They seeke in Aristotle an easines, they reproue his darkenes, and call him Sepia [margin. A fishe called a Cuttell].

1589 ‘Pasquill of England’ Returne of Pasquill sig. Cj^v They are the very Spawnes of the fish Sæpia, where the streame is cleere..they vomit vp yncke to trouble the waters.

1607 T. Walkington Optick Glasse i. B The Sepia's inkie humor.

1683 W. Cave Ecclesiastici 333 Like the Fish Sepia, which being in danger to be taken by the Fisherman, throws out abundance of black Matter, which discolouring the Water all about, it safely escapes under that Covert.

1752 J. Hill Gen. Nat. Hist. III. 97 The body of the Sepia is of an oblong figure and depressed.

1771 T. Pennant Synopsis Quadrupeds 242 They..feed on lobsters, fish, Sepiæ, and shell fish.

1836 W. Buckland Geol. & Mineral. I. xv. 307 [The ink-bags] contain the fluid which the living sepia emits in the moment of alarm.

1839 T. Beale Nat. Hist. Sperm Whale 58 The internal shell of the common sepia is large and broad.

1859–62 J. Richardson et al. Museum Nat. Hist. (1868) II. 315 The Common Sepia or Cuttle~fish (Sepia officinalis).

a. A pigment of a rich brown colour (used in monochrome water-colour painting) prepared from the inky secretion of the cuttlefish; the colour of this pigment. Also called Roman sepia.

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the world > matter > colour > named colours > brown or brownness > colouring matter > [noun] > pigments

brown1549

umberc1568

castory1590

wood-colour1622

burnt umbera1650

Cologne earth1658

Spanish brown1660

raw umber1702

bistre1728

Siena1787

raw sienna1797

Terra Siennaa1817

sepia1821

brown ochre1823

bone brown1831

indigo-brown1838

mummy1854

Cassel brown1860

Prussian brown1860

mineral brown1869

Cappagh brown1875

Verona brown1889

1821 W. M. Craig Lect. Drawing ii. 102 Water-colour sketches performed entirely in seppia, or bistre, or any brown colour.

1842 Baroness Bunsen in A. J. C. Hare Life & Lett. Baroness Bunsen (1879) II. ii. 46 Her outlines are in pen and sepia, like Flaxman's.

1861 R. T. Hulme tr. C. H. Moquin-Tandon Elements Med. Zool. ii. iii. ii. 82 The pigment used in water colour painting and known as Roman Sepia.

1891 R. Kipling Light that Failed viii. 150 This shall be in sepia. It's a sweet material to work with.

b. The inky secretion itself. rare.

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the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > class Cephalopoda > [noun] > order Dibranchiata > section Decapoda > family Sepiadae > member of > ink

sepia1886

1886 Globe 27 Oct. (Cassell) Nobody who has not tasted the great cuttle-fish, his feelers cut up and stewed in the black ink or sepia which serves him, apparently, for blood, can imagine how good he is.

c. elliptical. A sepia drawing. [So French.]

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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > drawing > [noun] > a drawing > in specific medium

coal work1651

crayon1662

pastel1791

pencilling1803

pen sketch1847

pen-picture1853

sanguine1854

pen and ink1860

black lead study1862

sepia1863

stylograph1866

charcoal1884

fusain1884

line drawing1891

celluloid1920

1863 Life in Normandy I. 169 Will you shew the sepias to this gentleman?

3. In full sepia bone: Cuttle-bone, esp. as used in pharmacy, etc.; = sepium n.

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the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > class Cephalopoda > [noun] > order Dibranchiata > section Decapoda > family Sepiadae > member of > cuttlebone

sepium1835

sepiostaire1836

sepia bone1840

1840 F. D. Bennett Narr. Whaling Voy. II. App. 290 The interior of the back [of the Flying-Squid] contains an elastic horny rod, or substitute for the ‘sepia bone’ that occupies the same part in some other tribes of the cuttle-fish.

Compounds

C1.

a. attributive or as adj. = of the colour of sepia; drawn in sepia. Also in combinations, as sepia-coloured, sepia-eyed, sepia-tinted adjs.

ΚΠ

1827 W. Hone Table Bk. I. 445 A sepia drawing.

1849 C. Brontë Shirley I. xi. 276 Rich in crayon touches and sepia lights and shades.

1875 R. B. Sharpe Catal. Birds Brit. Mus. II. 154 The primary-coverts..inclining to sepia-brown.

1896 Cent. Mag. 51 799/1 Dark-haired, sepia-eyed.

sepia print n. (see quot. 1940).

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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > photography > a photograph > [noun] > colour

heliochrome1853

colour photograph1857

ivory-type1873

heliochromotype1875

photochrome1878

mezzograph1890

sepia print1892

chromogram1893

kromogram1897

autochrome1907

separation1922

colour snap1928

1892 W. E. Woodbury Encycl. Photogr. 556 Black and sepia prints must not be washed together in the same dish.

1940 Chambers's Techn. Dict. 758/2 Sepia print.., a release print in which the image is dyed sepia instead of being left black.

1977 Spare Rib July 62/4 A marvellous collection of sepia prints showed women at work in the hospital's wards.

C2. Of black Americans: euphemistic for ‘black’. U.S.

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1942 L. V. Berrey & M. Van den Bark Amer. Thes. Slang §32/8 Negro color distinctions... sepia.

1944 H. L. Mencken in Amer. Speech 19 166 Some of them also use such terms as..sepia to get away from the..inaccurate black, and in 1944 there was a Sepia Miss America contest.

1947 S. Lewis Kingsblood Royal xxiii. 138 A certain number of sepia merchants get rich on the rest of us chosen people.

Derivatives

ˈsepia-like adj.

ΚΠ

1890 J. Cagney tr. R. von Jaksch Clin. Diagnosis i. 42 A sepia-like decomposition product.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online December 2020).

单词	sepia
释义	sepian. Brit. /ˈsiːpɪə/, U.S. /ˈsipiə/ Forms: Also 1500s–1600s sæpia, 1800s seppia. Etymology: < Latin sēpia, < Greek σηπία. The Latin word gave Italian seppia , French sèche , Spanish jibia , Portuguese siba ; French sépia in sense 2 is from Italian, as is probably also the English word in that sense. 1. The cuttlefish; now rare exc. Zoology a cuttle of the genus Sepia or family Sepiidæ; also, the genus itself. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > class Cephalopoda > [noun] > order Dibranchiata > section Decapoda > family Sepiadae > member of cuttlec1000 seggec1300 polypus?1527 scuttle1530 sepia1569 cuttlefish1591 inkhorn fish1598 ozaena1601 sea-cat1601 sea-cut1601 sound1611 scribe1655 sea-qualm1804 sepiacean1842 sepioid1857 sea-sleeve1867 1569 J. Sanford tr. H. C. Agrippa Of Vanitie Artes & Sci. 10 b They seeke in Aristotle an easines, they reproue his darkenes, and call him Sepia [margin. A fishe called a Cuttell]. 1589 ‘Pasquill of England’ Returne of Pasquill sig. Cj^v They are the very Spawnes of the fish Sæpia, where the streame is cleere..they vomit vp yncke to trouble the waters. 1607 T. Walkington Optick Glasse i. B The Sepia's inkie humor. 1683 W. Cave Ecclesiastici 333 Like the Fish Sepia, which being in danger to be taken by the Fisherman, throws out abundance of black Matter, which discolouring the Water all about, it safely escapes under that Covert. 1752 J. Hill Gen. Nat. Hist. III. 97 The body of the Sepia is of an oblong figure and depressed. 1771 T. Pennant Synopsis Quadrupeds 242 They..feed on lobsters, fish, Sepiæ, and shell fish. 1836 W. Buckland Geol. & Mineral. I. xv. 307 [The ink-bags] contain the fluid which the living sepia emits in the moment of alarm. 1839 T. Beale Nat. Hist. Sperm Whale 58 The internal shell of the common sepia is large and broad. 1859–62 J. Richardson et al. Museum Nat. Hist. (1868) II. 315 The Common Sepia or Cuttle~fish (Sepia officinalis). 2. a. A pigment of a rich brown colour (used in monochrome water-colour painting) prepared from the inky secretion of the cuttlefish; the colour of this pigment. Also called Roman sepia. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > colour > named colours > brown or brownness > colouring matter > [noun] > pigments brown1549 umberc1568 castory1590 wood-colour1622 burnt umbera1650 Cologne earth1658 Spanish brown1660 raw umber1702 bistre1728 Siena1787 raw sienna1797 Terra Siennaa1817 sepia1821 brown ochre1823 bone brown1831 indigo-brown1838 mummy1854 Cassel brown1860 Prussian brown1860 mineral brown1869 Cappagh brown1875 Verona brown1889 1821 W. M. Craig Lect. Drawing ii. 102 Water-colour sketches performed entirely in seppia, or bistre, or any brown colour. 1842 Baroness Bunsen in A. J. C. Hare Life & Lett. Baroness Bunsen (1879) II. ii. 46 Her outlines are in pen and sepia, like Flaxman's. 1861 R. T. Hulme tr. C. H. Moquin-Tandon Elements Med. Zool. ii. iii. ii. 82 The pigment used in water colour painting and known as Roman Sepia. 1891 R. Kipling Light that Failed viii. 150 This shall be in sepia. It's a sweet material to work with. b. The inky secretion itself. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > class Cephalopoda > [noun] > order Dibranchiata > section Decapoda > family Sepiadae > member of > ink sepia1886 1886 Globe 27 Oct. (Cassell) Nobody who has not tasted the great cuttle-fish, his feelers cut up and stewed in the black ink or sepia which serves him, apparently, for blood, can imagine how good he is. c. elliptical. A sepia drawing. [So French.] ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > drawing > [noun] > a drawing > in specific medium coal work1651 crayon1662 pastel1791 pencilling1803 pen sketch1847 pen-picture1853 sanguine1854 pen and ink1860 black lead study1862 sepia1863 stylograph1866 charcoal1884 fusain1884 line drawing1891 celluloid1920 1863 Life in Normandy I. 169 Will you shew the sepias to this gentleman? 3. In full sepia bone: Cuttle-bone, esp. as used in pharmacy, etc.; = sepium n. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > class Cephalopoda > [noun] > order Dibranchiata > section Decapoda > family Sepiadae > member of > cuttlebone sepium1835 sepiostaire1836 sepia bone1840 1840 F. D. Bennett Narr. Whaling Voy. II. App. 290 The interior of the back [of the Flying-Squid] contains an elastic horny rod, or substitute for the ‘sepia bone’ that occupies the same part in some other tribes of the cuttle-fish. Compounds C1. a. attributive or as adj. = of the colour of sepia; drawn in sepia. Also in combinations, as sepia-coloured, sepia-eyed, sepia-tinted adjs. ΚΠ 1827 W. Hone Table Bk. I. 445 A sepia drawing. 1849 C. Brontë Shirley I. xi. 276 Rich in crayon touches and sepia lights and shades. 1875 R. B. Sharpe Catal. Birds Brit. Mus. II. 154 The primary-coverts..inclining to sepia-brown. 1896 Cent. Mag. 51 799/1 Dark-haired, sepia-eyed. b. sepia print n. (see quot. 1940). ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > photography > a photograph > [noun] > colour heliochrome1853 colour photograph1857 ivory-type1873 heliochromotype1875 photochrome1878 mezzograph1890 sepia print1892 chromogram1893 kromogram1897 autochrome1907 separation1922 colour snap1928 1892 W. E. Woodbury Encycl. Photogr. 556 Black and sepia prints must not be washed together in the same dish. 1940 Chambers's Techn. Dict. 758/2 Sepia print.., a release print in which the image is dyed sepia instead of being left black. 1977 Spare Rib July 62/4 A marvellous collection of sepia prints showed women at work in the hospital's wards. C2. Of black Americans: euphemistic for ‘black’. U.S. ΚΠ 1942 L. V. Berrey & M. Van den Bark Amer. Thes. Slang §32/8 Negro color distinctions... sepia. 1944 H. L. Mencken in Amer. Speech 19 166 Some of them also use such terms as..sepia to get away from the..inaccurate black, and in 1944 there was a Sepia Miss America contest. 1947 S. Lewis Kingsblood Royal xxiii. 138 A certain number of sepia merchants get rich on the rest of us chosen people. Derivatives ˈsepia-like adj. ΚΠ 1890 J. Cagney tr. R. von Jaksch Clin. Diagnosis i. 42 A sepia-like decomposition product. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < n.1569
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