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Meanings of yellow ocher in English

Pigment consisting of a limonite mixed with clay and silica.

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Examples for "yellow ochre"
Examples for "yellow ochre"
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Greco composed his palette with white vermilion, lake, yellow ochre, ivory black.
Promenades of an Impressionist
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This is prepared with yellow ochre in powder, to receipt No.
Young's Demonstrative Translation of Scientific Secrets / Or, A ...
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Flesh Colour.-Ceruse ,redlead, and lake, for a swarthy complexion, and yellow ochre.
Young's Demonstrative Translation of Scientific Secrets / Or, A ...
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The first is black, strewn with cloudy, mouse-grey spots; the second is yellow ochre.
More Hunting Wasps
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Owls.-Ochremixed with white, in different shades; legs, yellow ochre.
Young's Demonstrative Translation of Scientific Secrets / Or, A ...
Usage of yellow ocher in English
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If you wait, I will mix you some rosemary oil with yellow ocher.
Nefertiti
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Some soil is Yellow , there is yellow ocher as well as red ocher.
The Land of Painted Caves
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For this purpose red and yellow ocher, colored earths, juices of plants, and charcoal were used.
A Brief History of the United States
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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
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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
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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...