sepia

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  1. noun A dark brown ink or pigment originally prepared from the secretion of the cuttlefish.
  2. noun A drawing or picture done in this pigment.
  3. noun A photograph in a brown tint.

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  • Nobody likes the sepia-coloured thing of last year in comparison. —  The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning
  • The mage entered a small, darkened alcove and gestured over a basin of porphyry filled with sepia-stained oil. —  Night Arrant
  • I have built a press for printing it, and am having paper made expressly, and real sepia (which is magnificent — both in color and price) got from the Adriatic for the ink! so that great things ought to result.” —  Philip Gilbert Hamerton
  • The craft lay perilously close to broaching. —  Stormwarden
  • - —  Best Detective Stories
 

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  1. Middle English, cuttlefish, from Latin sēpia, cuttlefish, ink, from Greek sēpiā, cuttlefish; perhaps akin to sēpein, to make rotten.

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  1. = French sèche, seiche (Old French seche), a cuttlefish, sepia, its secretion, = Provencal sepia = Catalan sipia, cipia = Spanish sepia, jibia = Portuguese siba = Italian seppia, a cuttlefish, its secretion, from Latin sepia, from Greek σηπία, a cuttlefish, also ink derived from it, sepia.
 

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/ˈsipiə/
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