2 December 2016
sepia
[see-pee-uh]
noun
1. a brown pigment obtained from the inklike secretion of various cuttlefish and used with brush or pen in drawing.
2. a drawing made with this pigment.
3. a dark brown.
4. Photography. a print or photograph made in this color.
5. any of several cuttlefish of the genus Sepia, producing a dark fluid used naturally for defense and, by humans, in ink.
adjective
6. of a brown, grayish brown, or olive brown similar to that of sepia ink.
Origin of sepia
Latin, Greek
1560-1570; < Latin sēpia cuttlefish, its secretion < Greek sēpía; akin to sêpsis sepsis
Related forms
sepialike, adjective
sepic [see-pik, sep-ik], adjective
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Examples from the Web for sepia
Contemporary Examples
With a book about Jane Franklin and her life of letters to her brother Benjamin, sepia yellow connotes yellowing papers.
You Can Indeed Judge a Book By Its Cover
Brian Gresko
November 19, 2013
Each of those women had a sepia photograph on the mantelpiece, of a young man in uniform.
The Tragic, Heroic Women of World War I
Jacqueline Winspear
June 28, 2014
A sepia photo shows him as a young boy, head in his hands, with a large book open at a bar table.
The Bars That Made America Great
Nina Strochlic
December 27, 2014
Filmed in Riga, Latvia, in monochromatic, sepia tones, the film evokes a world drained of life and color.
The Female ‘Schindler’
Kati Marton
April 17, 2009
Both play within a relatively constrained color palette rich in sepia yellow, with strategic daubs of sky blue and red.
You Can Indeed Judge a Book By Its Cover
Brian Gresko
November 19, 2013
Historical Examples
Its flavour is most rich, and its texture most delicate when the gills show the pink colour with sepia margins.
Mushroom Culture
W. Robinson
All derived from cuttle-fish varieties of sepia used for baits.
The Sailor’s Word-Book
William Henry Smyth
The picture is a copy in sepia tones of Murillo’s Saint Anthony, 16 inches in height by 20 inches horizontally.
The Library of Work and Play: Home Decoration
Charles Franklin Warner
This food is chiefly the Squid or sepia octopus, known also by the name of the cuttle-fish.
Old Jack
W.H.G. Kingston
In other cases they extend laterally along a greater length of the body, as in sepia (fig. 15).
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 6
Various
Anagram
as pie
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