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Synonyms for umber

Grammar : Adj, noun
Spell : uhm-ber
Phonetic Transcription : ˈʌm bər

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Définition of umber

Origin :
  • brown earthy pigment, 1560s, from Middle French ombre (in terre d'ombre), or Italian ombra (in terra di ombra), both from either Latin umbra "shade, shadow" (see umbrage) or from Umbra, fem. of Umber "belonging to Umbria," region in central Italy from which the coloring matter first came. Burnt umber, specially prepared and redder in color, is attested from c.1650.
  • As in brown : adj dark, burnished color
  • As in tan : noun light brown
Example sentences :
  • The people who live in this look as it painted in umber by old Dutch masters.
  • Extract from : « Ireland as It Is » by Robert John Buckley (AKA R.J.B.)
  • You could almost, under the umber silk, see the rippling of his veins.
  • Extract from : « The Imitator » by Percival Pollard
  • The principal and most useful of these are—umber, terra di Sienna (both burnt and raw), Spanish brown, and some of the ochres.
  • Extract from : « Cooley's Cyclopdia of Practical Receipts and Collateral Information in the Arts, Manufactures, Professions, and Trades..., Sixth Edition, Volume I » by Arnold Cooley
  • They are of a grayish or buffy color spotted with umber and lilac.
  • Extract from : « The Bird Book » by Chester A. Reed
  • The eggs are white or greenish white, specked with reddish brown and umber.
  • Extract from : « The Bird Book » by Chester A. Reed
  • It never can be represented by umber, unless altered by contrast.'
  • Extract from : « Select Poems of Thomas Gray » by Thomas Gray
  • These formulas, however, contained a small percentage of umber and ochre.
  • Extract from : « Paint Technology and Tests » by Henry A. Gardner
  • Differs from C. stenocoleus in sulcate pileus and umber stem.
  • Extract from : « European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae » by George Massee
  • Rare and far, the sails of junks patched the horizon with umber polygons.
  • Extract from : « Dragon's blood » by Henry Milner Rideout
  • More and more she loved these umber wastes, over which cloud-shadows drifted like the darkening ripple of the wind on the sea.
  • Extract from : « A Book o' Nine Tales. » by Arlo Bates
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