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Definition of ocher
1 : an earthy usually red or yellow and often impure iron ore used as a pigment
2 : the color of ocher; especially : the color of yellow ocher
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Her thick gray hair is twisted around a headband of ocher stone beads, and her wrists are stacked with bracelets.
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The living room's cypress walls are painted with an ocher glaze for a soft, aged look.
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The faithfully restored three-story hunting lodge has stone walls washed in light-ocher plaster and shutters painted the pale blue characteristic of the region.
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For five hours, all that can be seen is an endless expanse of ocher shifting to vermilion, corrugated by ancient crags and pocked with swirling violet salt pan lakes.
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In Breil-sur-Roya, an old French-Italian village of ocher houses in the valley by a quiet lake, Mr. Herrou is something of a celebrity.
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Origin and Etymology of ocher
Middle English oker, from Middle French & Latin; Middle French ocre, from Latin ochra, from Greek ōchra, from feminine of ōchros yellow
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