ocherous

variants or ochreous
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Adjective
  • This white dress outfit practically demands to be accessorized with an Aperol spritz, a pastel Vespa, and a sandy beach.
    Kelsey Stiegman, Glamour, 14 May 2026
  • The place is a sound-effects recording studio, with three sound designers creating and dubbing aural effects — footsteps on a sandy beach, flapping bird wings — onto pieces of film footage.
    Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 14 May 2026
Adjective
  • Vimala Pons, in strawberry-blonde bangs, is a striking actor who plays Irène as the new modern woman.
    Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 12 May 2026
  • Jordan—who seemed more fish than girl, her bobbed blonde hair tinted green as old pennies—walked with a confidence that Ana wished for her own daughter.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 12 May 2026
Adjective
  • The pale tortilla was dappled with shades of brown, toasty and tawny—simplicity, done superlatively.
    Helen Rosner, New Yorker, 3 May 2026
  • Among the art conservatives found objectionable was artist Andres Serrano’s photograph titled Piss Christ featuring a plastic crucifix in a tawny liquid the artist described as his own urine.
    Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 22 Apr. 2026
Adjective
  • The great golden digger wasp, Sphex icheneumoneus, is a large wasp that sports golden hairs on the head and thorax and has a distinctive half orange half black abdomen.
    Pamm Cooper, Hartford Courant, 9 May 2026
  • The Jura’s most famous and valuable wine is its Vin Jaune—French for yellow or golden wine—which is made from Savagnin and is matured in oak barrels for a minimum of 75 months during which the barrels are untouched until bottling.
    Mike DeSimone, Robb Report, 8 May 2026
Adjective
  • Bedding should be straw or similar material (avoid blankets or towels that can freeze).
    Sergio Candido, CBS News, 24 Jan. 2026
  • Their delicious 2021 Viognier is straw colored in the glass with aromas of white flowers, white peach, and dried apricot with flavors of yellow peach, jasmine flower, and cantaloupe melon.
    Mike DeSimone, Robb Report, 24 July 2025
Adjective
  • And yet, about four years ago, images of myself with flaxen hair started to wheedle their way into my brain and park there.
    Jennifer Hussein, Allure, 4 Apr. 2025
  • Miss Maynard’s class is building Holland on a small scale in one of their sandbox tables with dikes, towers, windmills, boys with wooden shoes and girls with flaxen hair.
    Contributed Content, Twin Cities, 7 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • Anderson has been transitioning back to blonde in recent months, stepping out with a more subtle strawberry blonde shade back in October.
    Meg Walters, InStyle, 10 Jan. 2026
  • In that original viral campaign launch video, a bearded Platner, his strawberry blonde hair tousled, introduced Maine voters to the issues central to his platform, namely, broad economic populism, taxing billionaires, and universal healthcare.
    Sam Stone, Bon Appetit Magazine, 16 Oct. 2025
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“Ocherous.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ocherous. Accessed 16 May. 2026.

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