What does ochrous mean?
Ochrous means Containing ochre..
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/ˈəʊkɹəs/ · adjective
Containing ochre..
Ahead of us was a great ochreous depression over which a shifting heat haze trembled looking almost like blue smoke.
[…] 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.
The Lutheran Church across the way, which in the daylight was the color of baby shit, had now taken on a soft ochrous hue which blended serenely with the black of the asphalt.
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 [...].
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Ochrous means Containing ochre..
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Ahead of us was a great ochreous depression over which a shifting heat haze trembled looking almost like blue smoke.
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