yellow ocher
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- noun
- /ˈjɛloʊ ˈoʊkər/
- Specialized
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ocre amarillo
- Burn Sienna little yellow ochre Little cadmium red.
- yellow ocher paint
- red and yellow ocher
- yellow ocher and white
Burn Sienna little yellow ochre Little cadmium red.
- Burn Sienna little yellow ochre Little cadmium red.
Examples
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Yellow ochre is often used by painters for its natural, earthy hue that resembles sunlight.
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Representations of these regional administrators, tradesmen, and missionaries are generally painted with pink, yellow ochre, or orange pigment.
Academic text (2001) -
The color was yellow ochre, various shades from the dark of the folds to the lights of the high points.
Fiction book (1998) -
Burn Sienna little yellow ochre Little cadmium red.
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A slender female figure in red and yellow ocher follows the contour of a rock.
Academic text (2002) -
The rock art was painted with red hematite, yellow ochre, and white mineral pigments that bonded to the rock, making it still visible after a thousand years.
Academic text (2004) -
There, she flings her indigo jacket and cerulean scarf over a yellow ochre lounge chair, and voila, she has created a small area of aesthetic order.
Fiction book (2000) -
Yellow ocher marks the edges of the dingoes' fur, while red ocher outlines the pair and the accompanying euro, a subspecies of the wallaroo.
Academic text (2002) -
Ivory black, a little yellow ochre, flake white—don't over-mix with the palette knife; you're not making cookies.
Academic text (2011) -
The artist mixed yellow ochre with white to create a warm shade for the landscape painting.
Synonyms
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A natural earth material used to make yellow-brown paint
A yellow-brown color used to make paint
How Yellow
Surface Forms
Morphology
The phrase is a simple adjective + noun composition: 'yellow' (a color) modifies 'ocher' (a type of pigment), so a learner who knows both words will infer it means an ocher that is yellow in color and used as a pigment. This follows a standard, cross-linguistically common compositional pattern and is therefore immediately comprehensible to B1 learners.
Etymology
The noun yellow ocher comes from a simple picture: yellow is the color and ocher is a yellow-brown earth people would dig up and grind to make paint. Because artists used this ground earth as a color, yellow ocher now means 'a natural earth pigment used for yellow color in painting'.