ocher
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7.9
- noun
- /ˈoʊkər/
- US
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ocre
- The light there was ocher, the color of sand in a circus ring.
- paint with ocher
- red ocher
This is the Mac paint pot in soft ochre and it is game changing.
- This is the Mac paint pot in soft ochre and it is game changing.
- This is in orange ochre and these Swatch, so they just feel really good.
Examples
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But when I opened the heavy wooden gate, there stood a two-story house with ocher-colored stone walls, a roof of brown stone slabs, and casement windows in painted white wooden frames.
Academic text (1999) -
But a few dusty specks of sunlight remained: green on the leaves, ocher on the ground, red in the flowers.
Academic text (2007) -
Boy, can you pass me that kind of ochre yellow over there?
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This is the Mac paint pot in soft ochre and it is game changing.
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With its sickly palette of ocher and brown, the picture is not easy to love.
Blog text (15) -
Before we left, my mother unwrapped a large ocher-colored shell she'd brought back from the beach.
Fiction book (1998) -
You don't see a lot of ochre shades in American brands or Korean brands.
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Upon that plain lay an irregular grid of ocher fields, their grain all reaped, only the yellow stubble.
Fiction book (1998) -
The god on the altar was Balaji himself: a stele painted a gleaming ocher with a monkey's mouth below two black eye-dots.
Academic text (2012) -
The artist mixed ocher into her palette to create warm, earthy tones in her painting.
Synonyms
3
4.0
A deep yellow color with a touch of orange
1
6.7
A natural yellow pigment from earth used for painting
A bright yellow color with a small touch of orange
A light warm yellow-brown color like soft sand
Compounds
How Orange
Surface Forms
Etymology
Ocher comes from the Greek word ōkhra, meaning 'pale yellow', and was the name for the yellow earth used as a color. So as a noun ocher refers to that warm yellow‑orange shade you can see in nature and art.