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burnt sienna

[burnt see-en-uh] / ˈbɜrnt siˈɛn ə /


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“If I if I sell you a tube of ‘burnt sienna,’ that is God’s honest burnt sienna, dug up out of the ground, burned in an oven,” Cole says.

From Washington Post Dec. 21, 2021

Always consistent, with their burnt sienna coating and powdered onion and garlic flavor, and always delicious.

From Los Angeles Times Feb. 12, 2019

“The car’s like a burnt sienna color, maybe cayenne? But yeah, it’s in pretty bad shape. And that way, you’ll know she’s your ride.”

From Slate Feb. 1, 2017

Something tasteful, cedar with a burnt sienna stain, to surround the back yard of his home in the 500 block of Central Avenue West, where he’d lived for more than a decade.

From Washington Times Sep. 10, 2016

He was darker than Mrs. Baylor—darker than a burnt sienna crayon.

From "It All Comes Down to This" by Karen English




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