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umber🔊

A brown clay, somewhat darker than ochre, which contains iron and manganese oxides.

💬 Quotations
I'll put myself in poor and mean attire, / And with a kind of umber smirch my face; / The like do you; so shall we pass along, / And never stir assailants.

(historical) In medieval armor, a visor, or projection like the peak of a cap, to which a fixed or movable faceguard was sometimes attached.

📑 Synonyms: umbrel umbrere

A grayling.

A dusky brown African wading bird (Scopus umbretta) allied to the shoebill and herons; a hamerkop.

Of a reddish brown color, like that of the pigment.

To give a reddish-brown color to.

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