Definitions
Natural brown earth pigment color.
Word origin
From Middle French ombre (“umber”), from terre d'ombre (“dark ochre”), from Old French umbre (“shade, shadow”), from Latin umbra. Doublet of umbra.
Used in a sentence
“I'll put myself in poor and mean attire, And with a kind of umber smirch my face; The like do you; so shall we pass along, And never stir assailants.”
“Their harps are of the umber shade / That hides the blush of waking day.”
“Armies o'er armies heap'd, the locusts came, Like clouds in autumn umbering all the sky […]”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Brown earth pigment”5 letters
Not quite right?
"Search similar patterns."
U____