ocher
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- noun
- /ˈoʊkər/
- Specialized
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- Diamonds and dots in red ocher indicate her fertility and her special relationship with the Rainbow Serpent.
- red ocher
Eden, I'm going back in with the soft ochre.
- Eden, I'm going back in with the soft ochre.
- And the next day, lo and behold, he found with red ochre paint Khufu's name in hieroglyphs up in the upper relieving chambers of the pyramid.
Examples
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Painted designs formerly consisted of natural ochers and pigments.
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His body is covered with fine lines of red ocher, much like that used on contemporary Aboriginal ritual participants.
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And then I would take the brown ochre and fill in the space.
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Where the blood flowed into the earth, the soil became a source of red ocher.
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The red ocher is used to pray for rain; rain, too, is the blood of the earth, filling the rivers that are its veins.
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A slender female figure in red and yellow ocher follows the contour of a rock.
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Yellow ocher marks the edges of the dingoes' fur, while red ocher outlines the pair and the accompanying euro, a subspecies of the wallaroo.
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After Sokate scrapes the hide, she spreads a reddish, oily paste of ground castor beans and pieces of red ocher over it.
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The artist selected ocher to create a warm background for her painting.
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Pottery from ancient cultures often featured designs made with natural ocher pigments.
Synonyms
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A natural yellow pigment from earth used for painting
A yellow-brown color used to make paint
Compounds
Surface Forms
Etymology
Ocher comes from the Greek ōkhra, 'pale yellow', and originally named the yellow earth that artists used to make paint. That is why ocher also means the natural yellow or brown pigment made from the earth.