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"In the sweetest terms possible," it was to be hinted that the whole body of the Netherlanders could protect itself against every enemy, but if dismembered as it was about to be, neither the one portion nor the ocher would be safe.

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  1. noun Any of several earthy mineral oxides of iron occurring in yellow, brown, or red and used as pigments.
  2. noun A moderate orange yellow, from moderate or deep orange to moderate or strong yellow.

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  • His eyes twinkled beneath his ocher-colored cowl and his cape tossed and swirled, even though there was very little wind coming down from the hole in the ceiling. —  F ;SF; - vol 093 issue 02 - August 1997
  • The discussion narrowed to a debate between Willungha and a tall brute with a broken nose and bold red-ocher tattoos. —  F ;SF; - vol 089 issue 01 - July 1995
  • The primary color palette is a combination of layered and textured materials stained with ocher, terra cotta, and sand tones. —  Omni: August 1994
  • The walls were painted in ocher, red and black in designs that were strange to my Gernian self yet familiar to Soldier's Boy's eyes. —  Robin Hobb
  • For the bronze man, hitherto almost completely invisible in the darkness, had turned to a man of gold Now walking forward, Doc was a giant figure of luminescent ocher, a living statue that might have been made of glowing gold It startled Monk only slightly less to look down and find the same thing had happened to himself Then he understood it. —  104 - Birds Of Death
 

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  1. Middle English oker, from Old French ocre, from Late Latin ōcra, from Latin ōchra, from Greek ōkhra, from ōkhros, pale yellow.
 

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