Definition of ochre in English:

ochre

(US ocher)

noun ˈəʊkəˈoʊkər

mass noun

1An earthy pigment containing ferric oxide, typically with clay, varying from light yellow to brown or red.
with modifier yellow ochre
Example sentencesExamples
- The Aztec courtesans used a pale yellow ochre powder on their faces to make them look beautiful.
- Devout persons, offering sacrifices of fruit, yak butter or flowers, touch and kiss the idol, which is tinted with red ochre.
- Painting skin, stones, or twigs with clay or red ochre.
- Décor is mostly soft ochre and saffron in colour, with contemporary furniture.
- The bank is steep ochre clay, water-scoured by spring floods and melt from the retreating glaciers to the east.
- Materials we have seen include fine clay, ochre, and, especially, charcoal.
- The tunic, jerkin and pleated skirt she was wearing were in shades of red: from almost brownish ochre to bright red trim.
- We get the red ochre by cooking the yellow over a fire.
- She might have finished the look with saffron eye shadow and lip balm tinted with ocher and alkanet root.
- They smear their bodies with ochre, a reddish pigment extracted from iron ore.
- The palette is severely limited: blacks, grays, browns, and the acidic yellow ochre of the faces.
- Today, their thick white walls and ocher terracotta roofs stand out from the lush green rain forest that surrounds them.
- A streak of yellow ochre holds a form together, but on perusal, it becomes a muscle, the features of a face or a spinal column.
- The most traditional way of coloring the runes would be with red ocher.
- Elderly women still prefer red and dye their own cloth with ochre (a natural pigment).
- Each painting is created using traditional ochre and natural pigments.
- Visual entry to the central space is impeded by two thin horizontal lines in ocher and charcoal.
- Each footstep raised a small cloud of dusty ochre Virginia clay, turning the olive drab of my fatigues a rusty red.
- He prepares red ocher, the most holy of pigments, a token of life.
- But the traditional colours used for the art remain ochre red and yellow, shades of blue and white and black.
1. 1.1 A pale brownish yellow colour.
  Example sentencesExamples
  But the water is ochre in colour and tastes bitter.
  What a strange ritual, I mused as the last of the drink seeped into the ground, producing an interesting ochre colour.
  The head is flanked on each side by a solitary and disheveled palm tree painted in dirty grays and yellow ochre.
  The walls are freshly painted in strong colours from yellow to ochre, or pink and bright blue.
  Chickpeas are almost always sold in dried form, whether split or not, and are of an ochre or pale brown colour in this form.
  The hues, one to a box, ranged widely, including signal red, cadmium blue and yellow ocher.
  The white sky and weedy ocher landscape have the blurry quality of an out-of-focus photograph.
  It will be a warm, ochre colour, not a deep shade, more golden than brown.
  The landscape was colored mainly in dark ocher, with occasional areas in malachite green.
  Her ocher splotch and muted browns matched the castle.
  To his eye, the blue looked right, and that color prompted him to paint a neighboring square yellow ochre, and so on.
  When the first Aurovilians arrived, they were confronted with a parched barren ochre coloured landscape.
  The concrete is coloured a warm ochre that recalls the traditional earthy hues of Toledo's buildings.
  It is a triangular piece of ochre or saffron coloured cloth with the Khanda emblem in the middle.
  I used a mixture of green, sienna, brown and ochre.
  Spore prints can be ochre in colour but difficult to obtain.
  A beautiful ceramic pot is always a lovely surprise; current designer colours in yellow, mauve, red, ochre and white are terrific.
  Their stormy, nocturnal pigments of brown, rust, orange and ocher, mixed with black and white, seem to thicken like wet sand.
  On the other, artists from the Kimberley region in the northwest use dots sparingly to outline broad areas of ochre color.
  My skin is pink and my yellow hair turned ochre from the force of it.

Derivatives

ochreous

adjective ˈəʊkrɪəs

The opening scene of the ballet is a landscape of stark blue sky and ochreous sun-baked hills with Pan's grotto in the foreground.
Example sentencesExamples
- This gives the wooden pieces an ocherous tint that, after some time, turns red brown.

ochroid

adjective ˈəʊkrɔɪd

rare

Pale yellowish.
The snow fell and collided against the ochroid flames.
I loved Adrian, with his sunny disposition to match his ochroid hair.

ochry

adjective ˈəʊkri

Origin

Middle English: from Old French ocre, via Latin from Greek ōkhra 'yellow ochre'.

Definition of ocher in US English:

ocher

(British ochre)

nounˈōkərˈoʊkər

1An earthy pigment containing ferric oxide, typically with clay, varying from light yellow to brown or red.
with modifier yellow ocher
Example sentencesExamples
- The tunic, jerkin and pleated skirt she was wearing were in shades of red: from almost brownish ochre to bright red trim.
- Each painting is created using traditional ochre and natural pigments.
- But the traditional colours used for the art remain ochre red and yellow, shades of blue and white and black.
- Décor is mostly soft ochre and saffron in colour, with contemporary furniture.
- A streak of yellow ochre holds a form together, but on perusal, it becomes a muscle, the features of a face or a spinal column.
- The bank is steep ochre clay, water-scoured by spring floods and melt from the retreating glaciers to the east.
- The most traditional way of coloring the runes would be with red ocher.
- We get the red ochre by cooking the yellow over a fire.
- Devout persons, offering sacrifices of fruit, yak butter or flowers, touch and kiss the idol, which is tinted with red ochre.
- The palette is severely limited: blacks, grays, browns, and the acidic yellow ochre of the faces.
- Materials we have seen include fine clay, ochre, and, especially, charcoal.
- Today, their thick white walls and ocher terracotta roofs stand out from the lush green rain forest that surrounds them.
- Elderly women still prefer red and dye their own cloth with ochre (a natural pigment).
- They smear their bodies with ochre, a reddish pigment extracted from iron ore.
- She might have finished the look with saffron eye shadow and lip balm tinted with ocher and alkanet root.
- He prepares red ocher, the most holy of pigments, a token of life.
- The Aztec courtesans used a pale yellow ochre powder on their faces to make them look beautiful.
- Visual entry to the central space is impeded by two thin horizontal lines in ocher and charcoal.
- Painting skin, stones, or twigs with clay or red ochre.
- Each footstep raised a small cloud of dusty ochre Virginia clay, turning the olive drab of my fatigues a rusty red.
1. 1.1 A pale brownish yellow color.
  Example sentencesExamples
  To his eye, the blue looked right, and that color prompted him to paint a neighboring square yellow ochre, and so on.
  The white sky and weedy ocher landscape have the blurry quality of an out-of-focus photograph.
  Chickpeas are almost always sold in dried form, whether split or not, and are of an ochre or pale brown colour in this form.
  It will be a warm, ochre colour, not a deep shade, more golden than brown.
  The landscape was colored mainly in dark ocher, with occasional areas in malachite green.
  The hues, one to a box, ranged widely, including signal red, cadmium blue and yellow ocher.
  It is a triangular piece of ochre or saffron coloured cloth with the Khanda emblem in the middle.
  A beautiful ceramic pot is always a lovely surprise; current designer colours in yellow, mauve, red, ochre and white are terrific.
  But the water is ochre in colour and tastes bitter.
  The walls are freshly painted in strong colours from yellow to ochre, or pink and bright blue.
  Her ocher splotch and muted browns matched the castle.
  I used a mixture of green, sienna, brown and ochre.
  When the first Aurovilians arrived, they were confronted with a parched barren ochre coloured landscape.
  The concrete is coloured a warm ochre that recalls the traditional earthy hues of Toledo's buildings.
  What a strange ritual, I mused as the last of the drink seeped into the ground, producing an interesting ochre colour.
  My skin is pink and my yellow hair turned ochre from the force of it.
  On the other, artists from the Kimberley region in the northwest use dots sparingly to outline broad areas of ochre color.
  Their stormy, nocturnal pigments of brown, rust, orange and ocher, mixed with black and white, seem to thicken like wet sand.
  Spore prints can be ochre in colour but difficult to obtain.
  The head is flanked on each side by a solitary and disheveled palm tree painted in dirty grays and yellow ochre.

Origin

Middle English: from Old French ocre, via Latin from Greek ōkhra ‘yellow ocher’.

单词	ochre
释义	Definition of ochre in English: ochre (US ocher) noun ˈəʊkəˈoʊkər mass noun 1An earthy pigment containing ferric oxide, typically with clay, varying from light yellow to brown or red. with modifier yellow ochre Example sentencesExamples The Aztec courtesans used a pale yellow ochre powder on their faces to make them look beautiful. Devout persons, offering sacrifices of fruit, yak butter or flowers, touch and kiss the idol, which is tinted with red ochre. Painting skin, stones, or twigs with clay or red ochre. Décor is mostly soft ochre and saffron in colour, with contemporary furniture. The bank is steep ochre clay, water-scoured by spring floods and melt from the retreating glaciers to the east. Materials we have seen include fine clay, ochre, and, especially, charcoal. The tunic, jerkin and pleated skirt she was wearing were in shades of red: from almost brownish ochre to bright red trim. We get the red ochre by cooking the yellow over a fire. She might have finished the look with saffron eye shadow and lip balm tinted with ocher and alkanet root. They smear their bodies with ochre, a reddish pigment extracted from iron ore. The palette is severely limited: blacks, grays, browns, and the acidic yellow ochre of the faces. Today, their thick white walls and ocher terracotta roofs stand out from the lush green rain forest that surrounds them. A streak of yellow ochre holds a form together, but on perusal, it becomes a muscle, the features of a face or a spinal column. The most traditional way of coloring the runes would be with red ocher. Elderly women still prefer red and dye their own cloth with ochre (a natural pigment). Each painting is created using traditional ochre and natural pigments. Visual entry to the central space is impeded by two thin horizontal lines in ocher and charcoal. Each footstep raised a small cloud of dusty ochre Virginia clay, turning the olive drab of my fatigues a rusty red. He prepares red ocher, the most holy of pigments, a token of life. But the traditional colours used for the art remain ochre red and yellow, shades of blue and white and black. 1.1 A pale brownish yellow colour. Example sentencesExamples But the water is ochre in colour and tastes bitter. What a strange ritual, I mused as the last of the drink seeped into the ground, producing an interesting ochre colour. The head is flanked on each side by a solitary and disheveled palm tree painted in dirty grays and yellow ochre. The walls are freshly painted in strong colours from yellow to ochre, or pink and bright blue. Chickpeas are almost always sold in dried form, whether split or not, and are of an ochre or pale brown colour in this form. The hues, one to a box, ranged widely, including signal red, cadmium blue and yellow ocher. The white sky and weedy ocher landscape have the blurry quality of an out-of-focus photograph. It will be a warm, ochre colour, not a deep shade, more golden than brown. The landscape was colored mainly in dark ocher, with occasional areas in malachite green. Her ocher splotch and muted browns matched the castle. To his eye, the blue looked right, and that color prompted him to paint a neighboring square yellow ochre, and so on. When the first Aurovilians arrived, they were confronted with a parched barren ochre coloured landscape. The concrete is coloured a warm ochre that recalls the traditional earthy hues of Toledo's buildings. It is a triangular piece of ochre or saffron coloured cloth with the Khanda emblem in the middle. I used a mixture of green, sienna, brown and ochre. Spore prints can be ochre in colour but difficult to obtain. A beautiful ceramic pot is always a lovely surprise; current designer colours in yellow, mauve, red, ochre and white are terrific. Their stormy, nocturnal pigments of brown, rust, orange and ocher, mixed with black and white, seem to thicken like wet sand. On the other, artists from the Kimberley region in the northwest use dots sparingly to outline broad areas of ochre color. My skin is pink and my yellow hair turned ochre from the force of it. Derivatives ochreous adjective ˈəʊkrɪəs The opening scene of the ballet is a landscape of stark blue sky and ochreous sun-baked hills with Pan's grotto in the foreground. Example sentencesExamples This gives the wooden pieces an ocherous tint that, after some time, turns red brown. ochroid adjective ˈəʊkrɔɪd rare Pale yellowish. The snow fell and collided against the ochroid flames. I loved Adrian, with his sunny disposition to match his ochroid hair. ochry adjective ˈəʊkri Origin Middle English: from Old French ocre, via Latin from Greek ōkhra 'yellow ochre'. Definition of ocher in US English: ocher (British ochre) nounˈōkərˈoʊkər 1An earthy pigment containing ferric oxide, typically with clay, varying from light yellow to brown or red. with modifier yellow ocher Example sentencesExamples The tunic, jerkin and pleated skirt she was wearing were in shades of red: from almost brownish ochre to bright red trim. Each painting is created using traditional ochre and natural pigments. But the traditional colours used for the art remain ochre red and yellow, shades of blue and white and black. Décor is mostly soft ochre and saffron in colour, with contemporary furniture. A streak of yellow ochre holds a form together, but on perusal, it becomes a muscle, the features of a face or a spinal column. The bank is steep ochre clay, water-scoured by spring floods and melt from the retreating glaciers to the east. The most traditional way of coloring the runes would be with red ocher. We get the red ochre by cooking the yellow over a fire. Devout persons, offering sacrifices of fruit, yak butter or flowers, touch and kiss the idol, which is tinted with red ochre. The palette is severely limited: blacks, grays, browns, and the acidic yellow ochre of the faces. Materials we have seen include fine clay, ochre, and, especially, charcoal. Today, their thick white walls and ocher terracotta roofs stand out from the lush green rain forest that surrounds them. Elderly women still prefer red and dye their own cloth with ochre (a natural pigment). They smear their bodies with ochre, a reddish pigment extracted from iron ore. She might have finished the look with saffron eye shadow and lip balm tinted with ocher and alkanet root. He prepares red ocher, the most holy of pigments, a token of life. The Aztec courtesans used a pale yellow ochre powder on their faces to make them look beautiful. Visual entry to the central space is impeded by two thin horizontal lines in ocher and charcoal. Painting skin, stones, or twigs with clay or red ochre. Each footstep raised a small cloud of dusty ochre Virginia clay, turning the olive drab of my fatigues a rusty red. 1.1 A pale brownish yellow color. Example sentencesExamples To his eye, the blue looked right, and that color prompted him to paint a neighboring square yellow ochre, and so on. The white sky and weedy ocher landscape have the blurry quality of an out-of-focus photograph. Chickpeas are almost always sold in dried form, whether split or not, and are of an ochre or pale brown colour in this form. It will be a warm, ochre colour, not a deep shade, more golden than brown. The landscape was colored mainly in dark ocher, with occasional areas in malachite green. The hues, one to a box, ranged widely, including signal red, cadmium blue and yellow ocher. It is a triangular piece of ochre or saffron coloured cloth with the Khanda emblem in the middle. A beautiful ceramic pot is always a lovely surprise; current designer colours in yellow, mauve, red, ochre and white are terrific. But the water is ochre in colour and tastes bitter. The walls are freshly painted in strong colours from yellow to ochre, or pink and bright blue. Her ocher splotch and muted browns matched the castle. I used a mixture of green, sienna, brown and ochre. When the first Aurovilians arrived, they were confronted with a parched barren ochre coloured landscape. The concrete is coloured a warm ochre that recalls the traditional earthy hues of Toledo's buildings. What a strange ritual, I mused as the last of the drink seeped into the ground, producing an interesting ochre colour. My skin is pink and my yellow hair turned ochre from the force of it. On the other, artists from the Kimberley region in the northwest use dots sparingly to outline broad areas of ochre color. Their stormy, nocturnal pigments of brown, rust, orange and ocher, mixed with black and white, seem to thicken like wet sand. Spore prints can be ochre in colour but difficult to obtain. The head is flanked on each side by a solitary and disheveled palm tree painted in dirty grays and yellow ochre. Origin Middle English: from Old French ocre, via Latin from Greek ōkhra ‘yellow ocher’.
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