English

Alternative forms

• ocherous (US)
• ochreous

Adjective

ochrous ‎(comparative more ochrous, superlative most ochrous)

1. Containing ochre.
   • 1958, Henno Martin, The Sheltering Desert, translated by Edward Fitzgerald, Thomas Nelson & Sons, p. 17,

     Ahead of us was a great ochreous depression over which a shifting heat haze trembled looking almost like blue smoke.

2. Ochre-coloured; brownish-yellow.
   • 1886, Thomas Hardy, The Mayor of Casterbridge, Chapter I,

     […] they looked around for a refreshment tent among the many which dotted the down. Two, which stood nearest to them in the ochreous haze of expiring sunlight, seemed almost equally inviting.

   • 1949, Henry Miller, The Rosy Crucifixion, Book One: Sexus, New York: Grove Press, 1965, Chapter 23, p. 498,

     The Lutheran Church across the way, which in the daylight was the color of baby ****, had now taken on a soft ochrous hue which blended serenely with the black of the asphalt.

   • 1967, William Styron, The Confessions of Nat Turner, Vintage 2004, p. 179:

     It was a Saturday, one of those dusty, ocherous autumnal days whose vivid weather never again seems so sweet and inviting after that youthful time of discovery [...].