any of various natural red earths containing ferric oxide: used as pigments
Examples of 'red ochre' in a sentence
red ochre
Mix red ochre in milk, and put it on the hearths with a brush.
Elizabeth E. Lea Domestic Cookery, Useful Receipts, and Hints to Young Housekeepers (1845). Retrieved in 2019 from Project Gutenberg (https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/)
Rubbing transfers red ochre powder directly onto soft surfaces, such as human skin, or animal hide.
Tammy Hodgskiss, Lyn Wadley 2017, 'How people used ochre at Rose Cottage Cave, South Africa: Sixty thousand years ofevidence from the Middle Stone Age.', PLoS ONEhttp://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5405984?pdf=render. Retrieved from PLOS CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
This research thus also demonstrates a sanitary reason for the vulture's habit of bathing in red ochre mud.
Helmut Tributsch 2016, 'Ochre Bathing of the Bearded Vulture: A Bio-Mimetic Model for Early Humans towardsSmell Prevention and Health', Animalshttp://www.mdpi.com/2076-2615/6/1/7. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
We present the first evidence for core-shell processed, natural pigment that was prepared by prehistoric people from hematitic red ochre.
István E. Sajó, János Kovács, Kathryn E. Fitzsimmons, Viktor Jáger, György Lengyel,Bence Viola, Sahra Talamo, Jean-Jacques Hublin 2015, 'Core-Shell Processing of Natural Pigment: Upper Palaeolithic Red Ochre from Lovas,Hungary', PLOS ONE10.1371/journal.pone.0131762. Retrieved from PLOS CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)