earthen
Example Sentences
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Even Biddy, our hen, and her two sisters were clucking as they dashed back and forth on the earthen floor.
From Literature
Or it could simply indicate that collectors feel safer splurging on a household-name artist like Rembrandt, a Renaissance man famed for his pensive, realistic self-portraits in earthen hues.
Using a rich, bold palette, he depicted Islamic astronomers, philosophers, and desert wanderers with the same kinetic lines that defined his Indian art, but in warmer, earthen ochres reflecting the Gulf's landscape.
From BBC
What survives of this ancient city today includes two long rows of rectangular earthen mounds, each about a meter high.
From Science Daily
They constructed a 35-mile earthen berm around the city in an attempt to encircle its one million residents.
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