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sepia

/see-pee-uh/US // ˈsi pi ə //UK // (ˈsiːpɪə) //

棕褐色,棕黄色,深褐色,棕褐色的

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : 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.
adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : 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.