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Meanings of yellow ocher in English

Pigment consisting of a limonite mixed with clay and silica.

        Usage of yellow ocher in English
        1
        If you wait, I will mix you some rosemary oil with yellow ocher.
        Nefertiti
        2
        Some soil is Yellow , there is yellow ocher as well as red ocher.
        The Land of Painted Caves
        3
        For this purpose red and yellow ocher, colored earths, juices of plants, and charcoal were used.
        A Brief History of the United States
        4
        When an artist wished to produce flesh color he mixed white, light red, yellow ocher, and terra vert.
        Scientific American Supplement, No. 415, December 15, 1883
        5
        The unpainted wooden walls, the furniture, and the floors colored with yellow ocher smelt of dry wood baked by the sun.
        The Schoolmistress, and Other Stories
        6
        There were likewise fragments of green carbonate of copper and kaolin, a yellow ocher, and considerable vegetal matter mixed with the sand.
        Archeological Expedition to Arizona in 1895 / Seventeenth Annual...