Definitions
a shade of brown with a tinge of red
Word origin
Borrowed from Latin sēpia (“cuttlefish”), from Ancient Greek σηπία (sēpía). Cognate with Italian seppia, Portuguese siba, and Spanish sepia.
Used in a sentence
“Sepia had some use in ancient times as a writing ink, and in modern times has has occasionally been used as a pigment, but it never attained any popularity, as it is extremely fugitive.”
“Only now did he realise how few colours there had been at the end of the universe. The world had been sepia, drained of colour and light.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Old-photo tint”5 letters
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