sepia
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++LDOCE 5++se·pi·a /ˈsiːpiə/ noun [uncountable] 1. CCa dark reddish-brown colour 深褐色2. sepia photograph/print TCPa photograph, picture etc, especially an old one, that is dark reddish-brown 泛黄的照片/版画3. AVDa dark reddish-brown ink used for drawing 深褐色墨汁
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sepia• Prominent among the pictures is an 1854 sepia photograph of Jonathan Pickering, the bewhiskered company founder.• My aunts seemed very far away, faded, sepia photographs stuck in some childhood album.• The photograph has faded, as fifties color photos do, to a kind of sepia.• Like a subject of one of Edward S. Curtis's sepia photographs, her face is wrinkled but beautiful.• Sadly, it is far from clear where, if anywhere, industrial workforces fit in Mr Major's sepia notions of community.• The patient's general state as well as her history of prolapse suggested that sepia be given.• Under the same date, neatly inscribed in copperplate writing with sepia ink, was the name Sarah Byrne.Origin sepia (1300-1400) Latin “cuttlefish”, from Greek; because the color is obtained from a liquid in cuttlefishes' bodiesse·pi·a nounChineseSyllable
Corpus dark a reddish-brown colour
sepia
se‧pi‧a /ˈsiːpiə/
noun [uncountable]
2. sepia photograph/print a photograph, picture etc, especially an old one, that is dark reddish-brown
3. a dark reddish-brown ink used for drawing
se‧pi‧a /ˈsiːpiə/
noun [uncountable] Date: 1300-1400
Language: Latin
Origin: 'cuttlefish', from Greek; because the color is obtained from a liquid in cuttlefishes' bodies
1. a dark reddish-brown colourLanguage: Latin
Origin: 'cuttlefish', from Greek; because the color is obtained from a liquid in cuttlefishes' bodies
2. sepia photograph/print a photograph, picture etc, especially an old one, that is dark reddish-brown
3. a dark reddish-brown ink used for drawing