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sepia

RELATED WORD :

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Adjective, Noun
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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun sepia has 3 senses

CIDE DICTIONARY

sepian. [L., fr. Gr. the cuttlefish, or squid.].
  •  The common European cuttlefish.  [1913 Webster]
  •  A pigment prepared from the ink, or black secretion, of the sepia, or cuttlefish. Treated with caustic potash, it has a rich brown color; and this mixed with a red forms Roman sepia. Cf. India ink, under India.  [1913 Webster]
Sepia drawing or Sepia picture, a drawing in monochrome, made in sepia alone, or in sepia with other brown pigments.
sepiaa. 
     Of a dark brown color, with a little red in its composition; also, made of, or done in, sepia.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

sepia, n.
1 a dark reddish-brown colour.
2 a a brown pigment prepared from a black fluid secreted by cuttlefish, used in monochrome drawing and in water-colours. b a brown tint used in photography.
3 a drawing done in sepia.
4 the fluid secreted by cuttlefish.

Etymology
L f. Gk sepia cuttlefish

THESAURUS

sepia

beige, brown, brownish, brownish-yellow, brunet, chocolate, cinnamon, cocoa, cocoa-brown, coffee, coffee-brown, drab, dun, dun-brown, dun-drab, ecru, fawn, fawn-colored, fuscous, grege, hazel, khaki, lurid, nut-brown, olive-brown, olive-drab, seal, seal-brown, snuff-colored, sorrel, tan, taupe, tawny, toast, toast-brown, umber, umber-colored, walnut, walnut-brown, yellowish-brown

ROGET THESAURUS

sepia

Brown

N brown, bister ocher, sepia, Vandyke brown, brown, bay, dapple, auburn, castaneous, chestnut, nut-brown, cinnamon, russet, tawny, fuscous, chocolate, maroon, foxy, tan, brunette, whitey brown, fawn-colored, snuff-colored, liver-colored, brown as a berry, brown as mahogany, brown as the oak leaves, khaki, sun-burnt, tanned.

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