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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A reddish-brown pigment prepared by calcining raw sienna.
  2. n. A dark reddish orange.

Wiktionary

  1. n. dark reddish brown colour, like that of roasted sienna.
  2. adj. Of a dark reddish brown colour, like that of roasted sienna.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. sienna made of a much redder color by the action of fire.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. a shade of brown with a tinge of red
  2. n. a reddish-brown pigment produced by roasting sienna

Examples

  • “When the books arrived, he built a bookcase, stained it the same burnt sienna asMan o'War,and pinned the elegant racehorse on the wall above it—where he could see it from his favorite chair.”

    Simon & Schuster: Change Me Into Zeus’s Daughter

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  • reesetee Are either of them burning, that anyone knows about? Nov 30, 2007

  • bilby That would be right. Siena's not far from Umbria. Nov 30, 2007

  • sionnach Kind of like burnt umbrage, but without the anger. Nov 30, 2007

‘burnt sienna’ has been looked up 900 times, added to 17 lists, commented on 3 times, and is not a valid Scrabble word.