ocher

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

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noun a moderate yellow-orange to orange color
noun any of various earths containing silica and alumina and ferric oxide; used as a pigment
adjective of a moderate orange-yellow color

A Christlike man in the ocher robes of a swami stood motionless at the end of the road. — Autobiography of a Yogi, Paramahansa Yogananda
She was wearing a bulky something in black and deep ocher by one of the new Tokyo designers. — The Samurai Strategy, Thomas Hoover
The Magellan lifted back into the sky, then moved out over the ocher wasteland that was the barren desert of the red planet. — The Secret of the Ninth Planet, Donald A. Wollheim

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