ochreous
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Adjective[edit]
ochreous (comparative more ochreous, superlative most ochreous)
- Alternative form of ochrous
- 1835, The American Journal of Science, volume 28, page 122:
- The contact of the air causes the water to deposit an ochreous, brown precipitate, which contains the basic crenate of the peroxide of iron, together with the apocrenate.
- 1923, Elizabeth Bowen, “The Lover”, in Encounters, page 117:
- The white-walled drawing-room, dim in the ochreous twilight of drawn blinds, was hung with Richard's Italian water-colours and other pictorial mementos of the honeymoon […]