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umber
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umber: see ocher ocher (ō`kər), mixture of varying proportions of iron oxide and clay, used as a pigment .
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umber
1. any of various natural brown earths containing ferric oxide together with lime and oxides of aluminium, manganese, and silicon
2. any of the dark brown to greenish-brown colours produced by this pigment
3. Obsolete
a. any dark, dusky, or indefinite colour


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And colors, such as Sepia and Raw Umber and Burnt Sienna, became classics.
However, the main colors used, because of the large proportion of sky, were black, white, raw umber, cadmium orange and yellow ochre.
 
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