sepia
棕褐色,棕黄色,深褐色,棕褐色的
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Definitions
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- : a brown pigment obtained from the inklike secretion of various cuttlefish and used with brush or pen in drawing.
- : a drawing made with this pigment.
- : a dark brown.
- : Photography. a print or photograph made in this color.
- : any of several cuttlefish of the genus Sepia, producing a dark fluid used naturally for defense and, by humans, in ink.
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- : of a brown, grayish brown, or olive brown similar to that of sepia ink.
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Examples
A garnish isn’t required, but some chopped scallions, scattered on top, takes dinner from sepia to special.
A sepia photo shows him as a young boy, head in his hands, with a large book open at a bar table.
Painting Moominvalley in sepia to save print costs in The Great Flood, Jansson somehow makes it a riot of imagined color.
Each of those women had a sepia photograph on the mantelpiece, of a young man in uniform.
Both play within a relatively constrained color palette rich in sepia yellow, with strategic daubs of sky blue and red.
With a book about Jane Franklin and her life of letters to her brother Benjamin, sepia yellow connotes yellowing papers.
We were, apparently, a beacon in that sepia waste where modern undersea monsters were lurking.
Four, five or six eggs are laid; these are of a pale greenish-blue hue, speckled or flaked with sepia markings.
Fanning the bills out like a hand of cards he stared at their sepia and gold faces, trying to get the reality through his head.
Aquatint, a method of etching on copper by which a beautiful effect is produced, resembling a fine drawing in sepia or Indian ink.
Whistler showed him "several examples done with the brush in sepia, in old French or Spanish styles," whatever this may mean.