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Burnt umber

noun
1.
Dark brown pigment obtained by heating umber.
2.
A medium brown to dark-brown color.  Synonyms: chocolate, coffee, deep brown, umber.






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"Burnt umber" Quotes from Famous Books



... find those in pans or half pans are preferable to the dry cakes, as time is not spent in rubbing them down. These are the most useful colours:—Cobalt, French ultra, Prussian blue, carmine, or pink madder, Indian red, vermilion, light red, sepia, burnt umber, burnt sienna, Indian yellow, yellow ochre, ivory black, and Chinese white. I do not consider more than these requisite for an ordinary palette. Then you must have a firm drawing-board, and a bottle ...
— Little Folks (December 1884) - A Magazine for the Young • Various

... are made of curly fir, all of the material must be 2-in. lumber, which dresses to about an inch and a half. All surfaces, except the faces of the supports, are given a well-rubbed coat of oil with a little burnt umber, the stain to be applied directly to the ...
— Mission Furniture - How to Make It, Part 2 • H. H. Windsor



Words linked to "Burnt umber" :   brownness, brown



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