Definitions for burnt-umber

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burnt-umber burnt umber

Spelling: [uhm-ber]

IPA: /ˈʌm bər/

Burnt-Umber is a 11 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 179 anagrams from letters in burnt-umber (-bbemnrrtuu).

Definitions for burnt-umber

noun

1. See under umber (def 1).
2. an earth consisting chiefly of a hydrated oxide of iron and some oxide of manganese, used in its natural state as a brown pigment (raw umber) or, after heating, as a reddish-brown pigment (burnt umber)
3. the color of such a pigment; dark dusky brown or dark reddish brown.
4. Ichthyology. the European grayling, Thymallus thymallus.
5. North England Dialect. shade; shadow.

adjective

1. of the color umber.

verb (used with object)

1. to color with or as if with umber.

Origin of burnt-umber

1250-1300; Middle English umbre, umber shade, shadow Old French umbre Latin umbra; in sense “earth” French terre d'ombre or Italian terra di ombra

Examples for burnt-umber

The colors used in either oil or distemper graining are raw sienna deepened with raw and burnt umber to suit.

The colors used are raw and burnt sienna, raw and burnt umber and ivory black.

The ground color is made by tinting white lead with ochre, venetian red and burnt umber.

We caught him one morning about two miles out from Mountain Valley, on his way to look after some of his burnt umber farm land.

The stippling color is best made from some good Vandyke brown, and it may also be made from burnt umber in distemper.

burnt umber, often deepened into a rich chocolate is the dominating one.

Melt the three articles together and color with burnt umber.

The graining color should be made from raw sienna and burnt umber in distemper.

The filler used should be coloured with burnt umber and sienna.

It should be made of raw sienna darkened with raw and burnt umber and thinned with raw linseed oil and turpentine, half and half.