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ochre

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ochre (US), ocher
a. a moderate yellow-orange to orange colour
b. (as adjective): an ochre dress


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His flier was rushing swiftly above a barren, ochre plain--the world-old bottom of a long-dead Martian sea.
A group of old fakirs were capering and making a wild ado round the statue; these were striped with ochre, and covered with cuts whence their blood issued drop by drop--stupid fanatics, who, in the great Indian ceremonies, still throw themselves under the wheels of Juggernaut.
His stomach is generally full, and his skin is covered with linen and cloth, instead of red ochre and oil.
 
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