ochre
IPA: ˈoʊkɝ
noun
- A clay earth pigment containing silica, aluminum and ferric oxide
- A somewhat dark yellowish orange colour
- (molecular biology, colloquial) The stop codon sequence "UAA."
- (slang) Money, especially gold.
- Any of various brown-coloured hesperiid butterflies of the genus Trapezites.
- (obsolete) Alternative form of okra. [The edible immature mucilaginous seed pod (properly, capsule) of the Abelmoschus esculentus.]
verb
- To cover or tint with ochre.
adjective
- Having a yellow-orange colour.
- (archaeology) Referring to cultures that covered their dead with ochre.
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Examples of "ochre" in Sentences
- E'en as a fresco one sees drawn on a wall, painted in ochre,
- Burnt ochre, which is very serviceable in stucco work, is made as follows.
- Such change cannot take place in ochre, which is altogether a mineral substance.
- For the next five centuries the bodies were finished with red ochre, which is found in abundance near Arica.
- We shall first set forth the natural colours that are dug up as such, like yellow ochre, which is termed [Greek: ôchra] in Greek.
- At Marni, the perennial home of the eccentric, unexpected combinations such as ochre Bermuda shorts, knee socks and reading spectacles recall "Little Edie" Beale.
- Usually the hand is covered with red ochre, which is probably a substitute for blood; and the impression of the hand is made on the wall of a temple in token of a vow.
- While the men are out with the cattle, the women spend the day in the village - a few grinding ochre, which is mixed with animal fat and smoothed all over their bodies to protect their skin.
- -- This alludes to the mode of taking the tithe of cattle, which were made to pass singly through a narrow gateway, where a person with a rod, dipped in ochre, stood, and counting them, marked the back of every tenth beast, whether male or female, sound or unsound.
- But, while the people who shop at Walmart and Target make no bones about their purchases: Oprah books, self-help, Grisham, Dan Brown, Danielle Steel, Koontz, etc. (so those stores only stock those titles), those who shop at Indigo want to feel as though they’re of a certain “lifestyle” (so the store puts in couches and offers lattes) and colours the walls whatever yuppy ochre is current.
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