umber
IPA: ˈʌmbɝ
noun
- A brown clay, somewhat darker than ochre, which contains iron and manganese oxides.
- A grayling.
- A dusky brown African wading bird (Scopus umbretta) allied to the shoebill and herons; a hamerkop.
- Alternative form of umbrere [(historical) In medieval armour, a visor, or projection like the peak of a cap, to which a fixed or movable faceguard was sometimes attached.]
verb
- (transitive) To give a reddish-brown colour to.
adjective
- Of a reddish brown colour, like that of the pigment.
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Examples of "umber" in Sentences
- OMBEK can be either a umber e.s.
- Female has the upperside umber brown.
- Displayed at right is the color umber.
- Displayed at right is the color 'umber'.
- Displayed at right is the color raw umber.
- Burnt umber is both a pigment and a colour.
- Displayed at right is the color 'raw umber'.
- The mineral's streak colour is also yellow umber.
- Antennae reddish; head, thorax and abdomen umber brown.
- The colors were deep and muted, he preferred the umbers to the yellows.
- No, burnt umber, which is the colour of the tattered shorts my dad used to wear.
- To compensate for its thus fading, it should be mixed with pigments that are permanent, such as umber and lamp black.
- Less expensive than those in the castle, the room had umber walls, peridot-colored quilted drapes and a fireplace topped by a plasma TV.
- And our flesh maketh us say to Christ, In thine umber, that is, in thy passion, in which Jesu Christ was obscure, dark and despised, we shall live by continual memory.
- Despite concerns about inflation and corruption, the n umber of foreign companies that invested in India rose to an unprecedented $16.9 billion in the first quarter of this year.
- I overpainted that once with raw umber, which is a dark yellowish brown, and on top of that I put mixtures of yellow ochre, and then I scratched through all the layers with a piece of metal comb. '
- Anyway, that grass … I overpainted that once with raw umber, which is a dark yellowish brown, and on top of that I put mixtures of yellow ochre, and then I scratched through all the layers with a piece of metal comb. '
- Since then there have been also discovered umber, which is an earth-colour, giallo santo, [23] the smalts both for fresco and for oils, and some vitreous greens and yellows, wherein the painters of that age were lacking.
- -- "Dark sooty brown above, slightly tinged with deep umber, which is most distinct on the sides of the head and neck, and in reflected light; the under parts are like the upper, only the brown tint is almost absent; the whiskers are black, and tail very sparsely haired" (_Anderson_).