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ochreous

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O´chre`ous
a.1.See Ocherous.
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ochreous [ˈəʊkrɪəs] ADJ → de color ocre
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Gull-fouled, a stone hut Bares its low lintel to corroding weathers: Across the jut of ochreous rock Goats shamble, morose, rank-haired, 20 To lick the sea-salt.
The magnetism of the ocean/Die aantrekkingskrag van die see by Gertenbach, I. / Literator: Journal of Literary Criticism, comparative linguistics and literary studies
Uncluttered and pristine, it is a wild place; the people once infamous for banditry and the landscape contrasting between arid, ochreous rocks scattered with ruined tower citadels and cypress-strewn olive groves leading to the clear, blue Ionian sea.
Super Mani by guardian.co.uk / guardian.co.uk
Could anything be more dead, more mute and inexpressive to the inexpert eye than the ochreous fragments of bone and the fractured lumps of flint that constitute the first traces of something human in the world?
Primitive modernity: H. G. Wells and the prehistoric man of the 1890s by Pearson, Richard / Yearbook of English Studies
 
 
 
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