Sepian

Quick meaning: Sepian is an adjective meaning (US, dated) Belonging to or pertaining to black Americans or African Americans, who typically have dark pigmentation of the skin.

Meaning

(US, dated) Belonging to or pertaining to black Americans or African Americans, who typically have dark pigmentation of the skin.

More Meanings

1. (US, sometimes capitalized, dated) A black American or African American.
2. (archaic) Of the sepia, i.e. the cuttlefish.
3. (dated) Of a dark or inky colour, often in reference to skin pigmentation.

Example Sentences

Randomly selecting a fruit fly with sepian (dark brown) eyes

Nineteenth century sepian musicals included Sam T. Jack's "Creoles" -1890.

He who dived in the swirling Maelstrom saw none to compare with them in horror: tentacular convolutions, tumid bulges, glaring orbs of sepian deformity, would have looked to him innocence beside such incarnations of hatefulness.

Chicago Defender columnists forewarned viewers that despite [The World, the Flesh and the Devil's] marketing as the "first interracial romance between male Sepian and non-Sepian female star," the only personal contact between Belafonte and Stevens occurs during the haircut scene and when she takes his hand.

Word Forms

• sepians

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include inky, sepiolid, percesocine, sciaenoid, bright, colorful.

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