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ochre

noun

  1. painting material
  2. a dark yellowish orange color
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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /ˈəʊkə/ / /ˈoʊkɚ/

adj

Etymology: From Old French ocre and its source Latin ōchra, from Ancient Greek ὤχρα (ṓkhra, “pale yellow”), from ὠχρός (ōkhrós, “pale, ocher”) (modern Greek ωχρός (ochrós)).

  1. Having a yellow-orange colour.
  2. Referring to cultures that covered their dead with ochre.

noun

Etymology: From an unknown West African language, probably Igbo ọ́kụ̀rụ̀, but compare Akan ŋkrũmã and ŋkrakra (“broth”).

  1. Obsolete spelling of okra.

verb

Etymology: From Old French ocre and its source Latin ōchra, from Ancient Greek ὤχρα (ṓkhra, “pale yellow”), from ὠχρός (ōkhrós, “pale, ocher”) (modern Greek ωχρός (ochrós)).

  1. To cover or tint with ochre.

    […] his eye was caught by the sight of one child in a group of smaller children playing in the shallows some little distance down—a white child, so white by contrast with the others that at first he thought it must be ochred, which it could not be while playing in the water.

    The sun gloats in the sky, casting a gleam on the pasture where there was so much umbering and ochreing only moments before.