Crossword clues for ocher
ocher
- Orange shade
- Brownish yellow
- Artist's pigment
- Iron oxide
- Earth color
- Yellowish color
- Reddish-brown pigment
- Earthy shade
- Brownish shade
- Brownish hue
- Earth shade
- Yellowish-brown shade
- Yellowish earth tone
- Fall hue
- An earth tone
- Moderate yellow-orange
- Moderate orange-yellow
- Autumn leaf color
- Yellowish hue
- Iron pigment
- Earth hue
- Autumn pigment
- Yellowish orange
- Yellow-brown color
- Warm color
- Turning-leaves shade
- Raw pigment
- Pigment made from iron ore
- Clay color
- Cave painting pigment
- Autumn leaves shade
- Shade of turning leaves
- Rust relative
- Red earth pigment
- Pompeii pigment
- Pigment used in cave paintings
- Pigment ore
- Paint color
- Orangy tone
- It's lighter than umber
- It ranges from pale to reddish-yellow
- Iron ore pigment
- Goldenrod kin
- Ferric oxide product
- Fall-leaf color
- Fall-foliage hue
- Fall foliage hue
- Earthy yellow
- Color from natural earth
- Cave art pigment
- Cave art medium
- Brownish-yellow tone
- Brownish-yellow color
- Brown paint pigment
- Palette pigment
- Paint pigment
- Landscapist's color
- Fall color
- Yellow-orange
- Yellowish brown
- Autumn color
- Desert shade
- Yellow pigment
- Shade of yellow
- Limonite's pigment
- Earth tone
- Earthy pigment
- Orangish yellow
- Earthy hue
- Orangeish shade
- Fall shade
- Yellowish shade
- Yellow shade
- Cousin of rust
- Autumn shade
- Color of fall leaves
- Autumn hue
- Orangish shade
- Earthy color
- A moderate yellow-orange to orange color
- Any of various earths containing silica and alumina and ferric oxide
- Used as a pigment
- Pigment of iron oxide
- Earthy yellow pigment
- Yellowish pigment
- Earthy clay
- Dark yellow
- Ore pigment
- Orange-yellow pigment
- Autumnal hue
- Pigment for a palette
- Earthy oxide
- Relative of sienna
- Pigment for Picasso
- Palette color
- Painter's pigment
- Earthy tone
- Popular pigment
- Pale yellow
- Natural earth
- Color of fallen leaves
- Pigment for Peale
- Reddish brown
- Brown shade
- Brown pigment
- Earth pigment
- Reddish yellow
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Ocher \O"cher\, Ochre \O"chre\, n. [F. ocre, L. ochra, fr. Gr. ?, from (?) pale, pale yellow.]
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(Min.)
A impure earthy ore of iron or a ferruginous clay, usually red (hematite) or yellow (limonite), -- used as a pigment in making paints, etc. The name is also applied to clays of other colors.
A metallic oxide occurring in earthy form; as, tungstic ocher or tungstite.
The color of ocher[1], varying around orange, from more yellowish to more reddish in tint.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
see ochre.
Wiktionary
n. (alternative spelling of ochre English)
WordNet
Wikipedia
Ocher may refer to:
- Mariya Ocher (born 1986), Russian singer-songwriter
- Ochre, a light yellow brown earth pigment
- Ochyor, a town in Perm Krai, Russia
Usage examples of "ocher".
A patch of ocher plaster on the wall opposite the window was cracked in a spiderweb pattern, and in the center of the web stood an arbalest bolt.
They turn north and then south again, following a fairly even thirty-degree slope, and at last the floor of the chasma appears to the west, a light-tan plain mottled with black and ocher patches, the iceblink of the western wall flashing at the horizon more than twenty kilometers away.
Bunched close together they came after me, the nailless, padded feet of their ponderous mounts making no sound upon the ocher, moss-like vegetation of the dead sea bottom.
Sir Ocher laughed aloud and clanged down the vizard on his gay young face.
On his left, Sir Ocher laughed aloud and clanged down the vizard on his gay young face.
Beautiful expanses of metal and plastic, each enclosed in seductively homogeneous chitin of earth tones and ochers, formed a ring around the room as secret and monolithic as Stonehenge.
Ten Thousand set off into a flat wilderness of silphium and little else, the ocher ground between those drab, greyish little bushes littered with rubble and fist-sized stones.
The ceiling was low and barrel-vaulted, the bloodwood stangs made bright by a wash of yellow ocher.
Naelore had laid out a yellow-and-green featherwork girdle for her waist and a cloak of ocher wool.
Slanting torrents of light played on the jungle canopy only meters below the lowest-riding cities, sparkled on the stone and plaster and marble, the dozen shades of yellows and pinks and ochers of the buildings, the flashing, angled reflections of the antigrav generators and the tasseled gardens of blueleaf, tremmin, fiddleheaded bull-ferns.
It is always a little saddening to me to look down thus upon a dying world, to scan the endless miles of ocher, mosslike vegetation which carpets the vast areas where once rolled the mighty oceans of a young and virile Mars, to ponder that just beneath me once ranged the proud navies and the merchant ships of a dozen rich and powerful nations where today the fierce banth roams a solitude whose silence is unbroken except for the roars of the killer and the screams of the dying.
Its avenues were covered with the sod of the mosslike ocher vegetation which clothes the dead sea bottoms of the red planet, and bordered by well kept lawns of crimson Barsoomian grass.
Several ocher columns jutted tens of meters up out of the foliage, like ancient giant trees that had died and petrified.
The sky glitters with stars, brilliant white, ocher, and blue, diamond facets against the velvet dark.
The road led across the flat, fertile countryside of the littoral plain toward the ocher hills of Judea, through the waking village of Ramleh.