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Ochrous

//ˈəʊkɹəs// adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Containing ochre.

    "Ahead of us was a great ochreous depression over which a shifting heat haze trembled looking almost like blue smoke."

  2. 2
    Ochre-coloured; brownish-yellow.

    "[…] they looked around for a refreshment tent among the many which dotted the down. Two, which stood nearest to them in the ochreous haze of expiring sunlight, seemed almost equally inviting."

Etymology

From ochre + -ous.

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