What is "ochreous"

Usage examples of "ochreous".

The sunburnt roofs, warm ochreous walls, and blue shadows of the capital, wear their usual aspect except for a few feeble attempts at decoration.

Abandoned here and there the granite rams of Amun-Re, god of the sun, crouch like small indignant sphinxes in the windblown ochreous sand.

It was bright enough, I suppose, but it seemed weak and ochreous by comparison with the light which had caged me for so long, in the world of the owls.

At its base were great bowlders, fallen from the cliff, and among them hundreds of smaller ones, smooth and ochreous, and shaped with a queer regularity.

The figure of the Frog-woman was plain, the green stone of which she was carved standing out in relief against the ochreous rock.

Para being of a dingy orange-brown, while the Amazon has an ochreous or yellowish-clay tint.

A great arc of fire stretched across the sky, reflected luridly in the water, with ochreous smoke filling all the heaven above.

The atmosphere was pervaded with a peculiar glare by the rays of the sun coming through the clouds of a dull ochreous red, giving the ocean, the ship, her canvas and sides, the same unnatural tint.

One or two of the islets had by this time vanished under the spate, while others were only partly visible, covered by a dirty, ochreous foam that lapped about their bushes and long grass.

Far to the west another gray and ochreous giant reared its bulk, closing the vale.

The third lifted itself out of the bowl, creeping up the precipitous bare scarp of the western barrier straight to the north, clinging to the ochreous rock up and up until it vanished around a far distant shoulder.

The flames of engine and parachute were an ochreous yellow against the backdrop of grey clouds.