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Definition of Burnt sienna

1. Noun. A shade of brown with a tinge of red.

2. Noun. A reddish-brown pigment produced by roasting sienna.

Definition of Burnt sienna

1. Noun. dark reddish brown colour, like that of roasted sienna. ¹

2. Adjective. Of a dark reddish brown colour, like that of roasted sienna. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Burnt Sienna

burns burns down burnside burnsides burnsite burnstickle burnstickles burnt burnt-out burnt alum

burnt down burnt lime burnt offering burnt orange burnt oranges burnt sienna (current term) burnt to a crisp burnt umber burntness burnup

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Literary usage of Burnt sienna

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Hawthorne and His Circle by Julian Hawthorne (1903)
"XIX burnt sienna—The Aquila Nera—A grand, noble, gentle creature—The most ... I had long been familiar with a paint in my color-box called burnt sienna, ..."

2. Mackenzie's five thousand receipts in all the useful and domestic arts by Colin MacKenzie (1853)
"The middle distance trees are produced by s thin wash of burnt sienna and gamboge. The distant trees are also of ultramarine, ..."

3. The theory of colouring by J. Bacon (1866)
"burnt sienna and Indigo. Yellow Ochre and Madder Lake. Vandyke Brown and Indigo. ... Raw Umber, Lake, and one of burnt sienna and Lake. the various blues. ..."

4. The Chemistry of Paints and Painting by Arthur Herbert Church (1901)
"burnt sienna. The roasting or calcination of raw sienna produces a very great change in its hue as well as in the depth of its colour. ..."

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