burnt sienna

English

Noun

burnt sienna (plural burnt siennas)

1. dark reddish brown colour, like that of roasted sienna.
   • 1968, Edward Abbey, “Down the River”, in Desert Solitaire: A Season in the Wilderness, McGraw-Hill; republished New York: Touchstone, 1968, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 160:

     We drink the last of the spring water in our canteens and, still thirsty, look to the river, that sombre flow the color of burnt sienna, raw umber, muy colorado, too thin to plow–as the Mormons say–and too thick to drink.

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Translations

colour

• Catalan: siena torrat (ca) m
• Georgian: მუქი მოწითალო-ყავისფერი (muki moc̣italo-q̇avisperi), მუქი მონარინჯისფრო-ყავისფერი (muki monarinǯispro-q̇avisperi)
• Japanese: 代赭色 (たいしゃいろ, taishairo)

Adjective

burnt sienna (not comparable)

1. Of a dark reddish brown colour, like that of roasted sienna.

Translations

colour

• Georgian: მუქი მოწითალო-ყავისფერი (muki moc̣italo-q̇avisperi), მუქი მონარინჯისფრო-ყავისფერი (muki monarinǯispro-q̇avisperi)
• Japanese: 代赭色の (たいしゃいろの, taishairo no)

See also

• burnt umber
• raw sienna
• Appendix:Colors