sienna

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Hands and face of both of us are done to a good burnt sienna, and a few hours more or less in the saddle don't count.

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  1. noun A special clay containing iron and manganese oxides, used as a pigment for oil and watercolor painting.
  2. noun Raw sienna.
  3. noun Burnt sienna.

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  • After twisting years of brushes between their lips Peter kissing the back of her neck, Misty said how when you look at the Mona Lisa, you need to remember that burnt sienna is just clay colored with iron and manganese and cooked in an oven.
  • She was still coming to grips with the spectacular red pindan dirt that had given her one decent frock a burnt-sienna tinge. —  Magazine - Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine - 2007-02 - February
  • You took me to the forest, red, sienna, and crystal under the golden sky, when you first went to work for my father's company. —  AHMM, October 2006
  • "Transparent" colors do not have titanium dioxide (white) or most of the earth pigments (sienna, umber, etc.) which are very opaque. —  WarCry Network : Latest News
  • Here I used raw sienna, scarlet lake, ultramarine blue, and violet. —  The EDM SuperBlog
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  1. Short for terra-sienna, from Italian terra di Sienna, earth of Siena, after Siena .

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  1. from Sienna, from Italian Siena, a city of central Italy; terra di Siena, Siena earth.
 

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