Ahead of us was a great ochreous depression over which a shifting heat haze trembled looking almost like blue smoke.
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Ochrous
//ˈəʊkɹəs//
Synonyms for "ochrous" (22 found)
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Translations
2 translations across 2 languages.
Czech
1 entries- okrový adj (Translations)
Polish
1 entries- ochrowy adj (Translations)
Sample sentences
4 total sentences available.
[…] 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.
Source: wiktionary
The Lutheran Church across the way, which in the daylight was the color of baby shit, had now taken on a soft ochrous hue which blended serenely with the black of the asphalt.
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It was a Saturday, one of those dusty, ocherous autumnal days whose vivid weather never again seems so sweet and inviting after that youthful time of discovery [...].
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