sepia
a brown pigment obtained from the inklike secretion of various cuttlefish and used with brush or pen in drawing.
a drawing made with this pigment.
a dark brown.
Photography. a print or photograph made in this color.
any of several cuttlefish of the genus Sepia, producing a dark fluid used naturally for defense and, by humans, in ink.
of a brown, grayish brown, or olive brown similar to that of sepia ink.
Origin of sepia
1Other words from sepia
- se·pi·a·like, adjective
- se·pic [see-pik, sep-ik], /ˈsi pɪk, ˈsɛp ɪk/, adjective
Words Nearby sepia
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How to use sepia in a sentence
A sepia photo shows him as a young boy, head in his hands, with a large book open at a bar table.
Painting Moominvalley in sepia to save print costs in The Great Flood, Jansson somehow makes it a riot of imagined color.
Each of those women had a sepia photograph on the mantelpiece, of a young man in uniform.
Both play within a relatively constrained color palette rich in sepia yellow, with strategic daubs of sky blue and red.
With a book about Jane Franklin and her life of letters to her brother Benjamin, sepia yellow connotes yellowing papers.
We were, apparently, a beacon in that sepia waste where modern undersea monsters were lurking.
A Traveller in War-Time | Winston ChurchillFour, five or six eggs are laid; these are of a pale greenish-blue hue, speckled or flaked with sepia markings.
A Bird Calendar for Northern India | Douglas DewarFanning the bills out like a hand of cards he stared at their sepia and gold faces, trying to get the reality through his head.
Deathworld | Harry HarrisonAquatint, a method of etching on copper by which a beautiful effect is produced, resembling a fine drawing in sepia or Indian ink.
Whistler showed him "several examples done with the brush in sepia, in old French or Spanish styles," whatever this may mean.
The Life of James McNeill Whistler | Elizabeth Robins Pennell
British Dictionary definitions for sepia
/ (ˈsiːpɪə) /
a dark reddish-brown pigment obtained from the inky secretion of the cuttlefish
any cuttlefish of the genus Sepia
a brownish tone imparted to a photograph, esp an early one such as a calotype. It can be produced by first bleaching a print (after fixing) and then immersing it for a short time in a solution of sodium sulphide or of alkaline thiourea
a brownish-grey to dark yellowish-brown colour
a drawing or photograph in sepia
of the colour sepia or done in sepia: a sepia print
Origin of sepia
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