Umber
Definition of umber:
part of speech: adjective
BROWNISH.
part of speech: noun
part of speech: noun
part of speech: noun
A brown earth, used as coloring matter.
part of speech: adjective
Usage examples for umber:
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The sleek, greenish current ate at the roots of lofty bluffs, striped by bands of umber and orange, and topped with out- croppings of rock as though a vanished race had crowned them with now crumbling fortresses.
"The Emigrant Trail", Geraldine Bonner. -
Inside were old unpainted desks,- unpainted, but browned with the umber of human contact,- and hacked by innumerable jack- knives.
"The Complete PG Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.", Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (The Physician and Poet not the Jurist).