sepia

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se·pi·a /ˈsiːpiə/ noun [uncountableU]

1. CCa dark reddish-brown colour 深褐色

2. sepia photograph/print TCPa photograph, picture etc, especially an old one, that is dark reddish-brown 泛黄的照片/版画

Examples from the Corpus

sepia photograph/print• Prominent among the pictures is an 1854 sepia photograph of Jonathan Pickering, the bewhiskered company founder.• My aunts seemed very far away, faded, sepia photographs stuck in some childhood album.

3. AVDa dark reddish-brown ink used for drawing 深褐色墨汁

Examples from the Corpus

sepia• Prominent among the pictures is an 1854 sepia photograph of Jonathan Pickering, the bewhiskered company founder.• My aunts seemed very far away, faded, sepia photographs stuck in some childhood album.• The photograph has faded, as fifties color photos do, to a kind of sepia.• Like a subject of one of Edward S. Curtis's sepia photographs, her face is wrinkled but beautiful.• Sadly, it is far from clear where, if anywhere, industrial workforces fit in Mr Major's sepia notions of community.• The patient's general state as well as her history of prolapse suggested that sepia be given.• Under the same date, neatly inscribed in copperplate writing with sepia ink, was the name Sarah Byrne.

Origin sepia

(1300-1400) Latin “cuttlefish”, from Greek; because the color is obtained from a liquid in cuttlefishes' bodies

se·pi·a noun

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