| 单词 | earth-tone |
| 释义 | > as lemmasearth-tone (b) With the sense ‘characteristic of or resembling soil or earth’, as earth-smell, earth-tint, earth-tone, etc. See also earth colour n. 2. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > colour > named colours > brown or brownness > [noun] > other browns umberc1568 Spanish brown1660 earth colour1688 raw umber1702 iron brown1714 clove-brown1794 raw sienna1797 wood-brown1805 moorit1809 coffee1815 oak1815 burnt almond1850 Vandyke brown1850 Turk's head1853 catechu brown1860 oak brown1860 mummy brown1861 walnut-brown1865 Havana1873 havana brown1875 wax-brown1887 box1889 nutria1897 caramel1909 wallflower brown1913 cigar1923 desert-brown1923 sunburn1923 tobacco1923 maple1926 butterscotch1927 walnut1934 snuff1951 mink1955 toffee1960 sludge1962 earth-tone1973 1814 C. I. Johnstone Saxon & Gaël III. 189 I think she'll no put owre this night. The wauch earth smell is about her already. 1865 Daily Tel. 27 Oct. 3/1 The colour of these tiles is a deep earth-tint. 1895 K. Grahame Golden Age 14 The air was wine, the moist earth-smell wine. 1942 T. S. Eliot Little Gidding i. 7 There is no earth smell Or smell of living thing. 1973 T. Pynchon Gravity's Rainbow i. 149 All in some nameless earth tone—a hedge-green, a clay-brown, a touch of oxidation, a breath of the autumnal. 1984 Homes & Land in Gatorland (Florida) 17 Apr. 3/1 (advt.) Fieldstone complements this cheerful 3 bdr. Decorated in earthtones. < as lemmas |
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