[
US
/ˈsipiə/
]
[ UK /sˈiːpiɐ/ ]
[ UK /sˈiːpiɐ/ ]
NOUN
- rich brown pigment prepared from the ink of cuttlefishes
- a shade of brown with a tinge of red
How To Use sepia In A Sentence
- The window well included about a dozen of these pillow-pods in sepia tones, some of them soft enough to drape slightly as they hung over a horizontal divider.
- Largely he was happy in his perfectly toned sepia world. Times, Sunday Times
- The period detail has been painstakingly recreated and it is shot in a sombre palette of olive greens and sepia tones.
- The whole state has kind of a cowboy-Saudi glitter to it when the oil is expensive, and kind of a sepia-Joad craquelure to it when the oil is cheap. Kenneth Hite's Journal
- It's a familiar and rather well-worn mechanic, but the sepia-toned graphical overlay is a stylish touch and the extravagant rag doll physics sends your victim rocketing through the air like a crazed acrobat, which is fun to behold and suitably reminiscent of a Peckinpah bloodbath. Blogposts | guardian.co.uk
- The problem is that I have no first-hand knowledge of the past in Alice Springs except sepia prints of people in suits and big frilly skirts.
- Populated by grotesques and caricatures it was a love/hate letter for an England fading into sepia.
- The robed and turbaned figures moving slowly across a sepia ground on the first screen are drawn from an 1895 film.
- The wallpaper was a sepia-toned print of acanthus leaves; the carpet had plate-sized pink roses all over it. T2©: RISING STORM
- The sepia coloured calendar, which is selling well, is available from the Canal Street pub at £3.99.