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burnt sienna (plural burnt siennas)
- dark reddish brown colour, like that of roasted sienna.
1968, Edward Abbey, “Down the River”, in Desert Solitaire: A Season in the Wilderness, McGraw-Hill; republished New York: Touchstone, 1968, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 160:We drink the last of the spring water in our canteens and, still thirsty, look to the river, that sombre flow the color of burnt sienna, raw umber, muy colorado, too thin to plow–as the Mormons say–and too thick to drink.
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burnt sienna (not comparable)
- Of a dark reddish brown colour, like that of roasted sienna.
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