Definition of sepia in English:

sepia

noun ˈsiːpɪəˈsipiə

mass noun

1A reddish-brown colour associated particularly with monochrome photographs of the 19th and early 20th centuries.
棕褐色
as modifier old sepia photographs
棕褐色的老照片。
Example sentencesExamples
- The sepia tinted tableau is reminiscent of the opening, as a single file of prisoners traipse, gaunt and dirty, into the showers like animals to the slaughter.
- As the days grow shorter and cooler, plants take on new personas, ripening into warm gold, russet, and sepia tones.
- Each shows the head and shoulders of young woman in tones of pinky sepia on the left, partnered by a fragment of landscape on the right.
- Old sepia photographs of the new arrivals, dressed proudly in suits, ties and bowler hats soon gave way to faded images of a population transformed into farmers, builders and engineers.
- His drawings were primarily in and executed in rich sepia hues.
- Australia's so bright, Ireland is so green, and wet, and America has this sort of sepia brown colour that has a lot to do with the portraits you show of the Native Americans.
- The sepia coloured calendar, which is selling well, is available from the Canal Street pub at £3.99.
- With skin tone colors of apricot, tan, sepia, mahogany, salmon, raw sienna, and burnt sienna, white was used primarily to alter shades and create a layered tint.
- The sepia tone was beautifully reproduced and each photograph was pin sharp.
- This stark palette fades to sepia, then finally emerges into full color.
- I've heard a rumour that, if you process a film to have a slight brownish or sepia tint, it's almost like a built-in filter so it does something neat to the contrast when you print it.
- In contrast to the smaller book, however, the large book (with its helpful plastic cover) lushly renders each project in colour and in gorgeous black, sepia and white.
- The colour is a kind of brownish sepia and reminds one of old, well-loved photographs.
- The cinematography is faultless, combining pale green and sepia tints to allow the grittiness of a bounty hunter's profession to pervade, involving the audience in the action.
- In the larger of these, the backgrounds are sepia, white, black, deep yellow, peachy sienna.
- It's a lush but creepy film, shot not in black-and-white but muted sepia tones that lend it an eerily timeless quality normally associated with old, brittle, yellow snapshots curled at the corners.
- They seem slightly underexposed, and a sepia tone gives them the look of faded vintage photographs.
- Without using paint, brushes, pencil, charcoal or any other conventional tools, she makes images in shades of grey, black, yellow and sepia.
- Each of these mysterious projections varies slightly in color: one has a greenish tint, another looks silvery, another is almost sepia.
- She was no different, an icon of gold, camouflaged against the beige and sepia surroundings of Alexandria.
Synonyms
hazel, chocolate-coloured, coffee-coloured, cocoa-coloured, nut-brown
1. 1.1 A brown pigment prepared from a black fluid secreted by cuttlefish, used in monochrome drawing and in watercolours.
  乌贼墨颜料
  Example sentencesExamples
  I bought several bottles of sepia ink in a Paris ink shop today, as I've used almost a bottle of brown ink on this tour.
  This little collection comprises ten porcelain and eight copper examples, all very carefully painted in polychrome enamels, sepia, and encre de Chine.
  In the history of ink, which is rapidly coming to an end, the ancient world turns from the use of India ink to adopt sepia.
2. 1.2count noun A drawing done with sepia pigment.
  乌贼墨颜料画
2A blackish fluid secreted by a cuttlefish as a defensive screen.
乌贼分泌的墨汁
Example sentencesExamples
- At the end of the 18th century it gained in popularity as a drawing medium because a reliable method of chemical extraction was discovered which produced a concentrated ink from the natural sepia.
- Avoid getting the sepia on your floatation suits, nothing marks like cuttle ink.

Origin

Late Middle English (denoting a cuttlefish): via Latin from Greek sēpia 'cuttlefish'. The current senses date from the early 19th century.

Definition of sepia in US English:

sepia

nounˈsēpēəˈsipiə

1A reddish-brown color associated particularly with monochrome photographs of the 19th and early 20th centuries.
棕褐色
Example sentencesExamples
- She was no different, an icon of gold, camouflaged against the beige and sepia surroundings of Alexandria.
- Australia's so bright, Ireland is so green, and wet, and America has this sort of sepia brown colour that has a lot to do with the portraits you show of the Native Americans.
- In the larger of these, the backgrounds are sepia, white, black, deep yellow, peachy sienna.
- They seem slightly underexposed, and a sepia tone gives them the look of faded vintage photographs.
- Each of these mysterious projections varies slightly in color: one has a greenish tint, another looks silvery, another is almost sepia.
- I've heard a rumour that, if you process a film to have a slight brownish or sepia tint, it's almost like a built-in filter so it does something neat to the contrast when you print it.
- The cinematography is faultless, combining pale green and sepia tints to allow the grittiness of a bounty hunter's profession to pervade, involving the audience in the action.
- In contrast to the smaller book, however, the large book (with its helpful plastic cover) lushly renders each project in colour and in gorgeous black, sepia and white.
- It's a lush but creepy film, shot not in black-and-white but muted sepia tones that lend it an eerily timeless quality normally associated with old, brittle, yellow snapshots curled at the corners.
- The colour is a kind of brownish sepia and reminds one of old, well-loved photographs.
- The sepia tone was beautifully reproduced and each photograph was pin sharp.
- His drawings were primarily in and executed in rich sepia hues.
- With skin tone colors of apricot, tan, sepia, mahogany, salmon, raw sienna, and burnt sienna, white was used primarily to alter shades and create a layered tint.
- Each shows the head and shoulders of young woman in tones of pinky sepia on the left, partnered by a fragment of landscape on the right.
- As the days grow shorter and cooler, plants take on new personas, ripening into warm gold, russet, and sepia tones.
- Old sepia photographs of the new arrivals, dressed proudly in suits, ties and bowler hats soon gave way to faded images of a population transformed into farmers, builders and engineers.
- Without using paint, brushes, pencil, charcoal or any other conventional tools, she makes images in shades of grey, black, yellow and sepia.
- The sepia tinted tableau is reminiscent of the opening, as a single file of prisoners traipse, gaunt and dirty, into the showers like animals to the slaughter.
- The sepia coloured calendar, which is selling well, is available from the Canal Street pub at £3.99.
- This stark palette fades to sepia, then finally emerges into full color.
Synonyms
hazel, chocolate-coloured, coffee-coloured, cocoa-coloured, nut-brown
1. 1.1 A brown pigment prepared from a black fluid secreted by cuttlefish, used in monochrome drawing and in watercolors.
  乌贼墨颜料
  Example sentencesExamples
  This little collection comprises ten porcelain and eight copper examples, all very carefully painted in polychrome enamels, sepia, and encre de Chine.
  In the history of ink, which is rapidly coming to an end, the ancient world turns from the use of India ink to adopt sepia.
  I bought several bottles of sepia ink in a Paris ink shop today, as I've used almost a bottle of brown ink on this tour.
2. 1.2 A drawing done with sepia.
  乌贼墨颜料画
3. 1.3 A blackish fluid secreted by a cuttlefish as a defensive screen.
  乌贼分泌的墨汁
  Example sentencesExamples
  Avoid getting the sepia on your floatation suits, nothing marks like cuttle ink.
  At the end of the 18th century it gained in popularity as a drawing medium because a reliable method of chemical extraction was discovered which produced a concentrated ink from the natural sepia.

adjectiveˈsēpēəˈsipiə

Of a reddish-brown color.
棕褐色的
old sepia photographs
棕褐色的老照片。

Origin

Late Middle English (denoting a cuttlefish): via Latin from Greek sēpia ‘cuttlefish’. The current senses date from the early 19th century.

词汇	sepia
释义	Definition of sepia in English: sepia noun ˈsiːpɪəˈsipiə mass noun 1A reddish-brown colour associated particularly with monochrome photographs of the 19th and early 20th centuries. 棕褐色 as modifier old sepia photographs 棕褐色的老照片。 Example sentencesExamples The sepia tinted tableau is reminiscent of the opening, as a single file of prisoners traipse, gaunt and dirty, into the showers like animals to the slaughter. As the days grow shorter and cooler, plants take on new personas, ripening into warm gold, russet, and sepia tones. Each shows the head and shoulders of young woman in tones of pinky sepia on the left, partnered by a fragment of landscape on the right. Old sepia photographs of the new arrivals, dressed proudly in suits, ties and bowler hats soon gave way to faded images of a population transformed into farmers, builders and engineers. His drawings were primarily in and executed in rich sepia hues. Australia's so bright, Ireland is so green, and wet, and America has this sort of sepia brown colour that has a lot to do with the portraits you show of the Native Americans. The sepia coloured calendar, which is selling well, is available from the Canal Street pub at £3.99. With skin tone colors of apricot, tan, sepia, mahogany, salmon, raw sienna, and burnt sienna, white was used primarily to alter shades and create a layered tint. The sepia tone was beautifully reproduced and each photograph was pin sharp. This stark palette fades to sepia, then finally emerges into full color. I've heard a rumour that, if you process a film to have a slight brownish or sepia tint, it's almost like a built-in filter so it does something neat to the contrast when you print it. In contrast to the smaller book, however, the large book (with its helpful plastic cover) lushly renders each project in colour and in gorgeous black, sepia and white. The colour is a kind of brownish sepia and reminds one of old, well-loved photographs. The cinematography is faultless, combining pale green and sepia tints to allow the grittiness of a bounty hunter's profession to pervade, involving the audience in the action. In the larger of these, the backgrounds are sepia, white, black, deep yellow, peachy sienna. It's a lush but creepy film, shot not in black-and-white but muted sepia tones that lend it an eerily timeless quality normally associated with old, brittle, yellow snapshots curled at the corners. They seem slightly underexposed, and a sepia tone gives them the look of faded vintage photographs. Without using paint, brushes, pencil, charcoal or any other conventional tools, she makes images in shades of grey, black, yellow and sepia. Each of these mysterious projections varies slightly in color: one has a greenish tint, another looks silvery, another is almost sepia. She was no different, an icon of gold, camouflaged against the beige and sepia surroundings of Alexandria. Synonyms hazel, chocolate-coloured, coffee-coloured, cocoa-coloured, nut-brown 1.1 A brown pigment prepared from a black fluid secreted by cuttlefish, used in monochrome drawing and in watercolours. 乌贼墨颜料 Example sentencesExamples I bought several bottles of sepia ink in a Paris ink shop today, as I've used almost a bottle of brown ink on this tour. This little collection comprises ten porcelain and eight copper examples, all very carefully painted in polychrome enamels, sepia, and encre de Chine. In the history of ink, which is rapidly coming to an end, the ancient world turns from the use of India ink to adopt sepia. 1.2count noun A drawing done with sepia pigment. 乌贼墨颜料画 2A blackish fluid secreted by a cuttlefish as a defensive screen. 乌贼分泌的墨汁 Example sentencesExamples At the end of the 18th century it gained in popularity as a drawing medium because a reliable method of chemical extraction was discovered which produced a concentrated ink from the natural sepia. Avoid getting the sepia on your floatation suits, nothing marks like cuttle ink. Origin Late Middle English (denoting a cuttlefish): via Latin from Greek sēpia 'cuttlefish'. The current senses date from the early 19th century. Definition of sepia in US English: sepia nounˈsēpēəˈsipiə 1A reddish-brown color associated particularly with monochrome photographs of the 19th and early 20th centuries. 棕褐色 Example sentencesExamples She was no different, an icon of gold, camouflaged against the beige and sepia surroundings of Alexandria. Australia's so bright, Ireland is so green, and wet, and America has this sort of sepia brown colour that has a lot to do with the portraits you show of the Native Americans. In the larger of these, the backgrounds are sepia, white, black, deep yellow, peachy sienna. They seem slightly underexposed, and a sepia tone gives them the look of faded vintage photographs. Each of these mysterious projections varies slightly in color: one has a greenish tint, another looks silvery, another is almost sepia. I've heard a rumour that, if you process a film to have a slight brownish or sepia tint, it's almost like a built-in filter so it does something neat to the contrast when you print it. The cinematography is faultless, combining pale green and sepia tints to allow the grittiness of a bounty hunter's profession to pervade, involving the audience in the action. In contrast to the smaller book, however, the large book (with its helpful plastic cover) lushly renders each project in colour and in gorgeous black, sepia and white. It's a lush but creepy film, shot not in black-and-white but muted sepia tones that lend it an eerily timeless quality normally associated with old, brittle, yellow snapshots curled at the corners. The colour is a kind of brownish sepia and reminds one of old, well-loved photographs. The sepia tone was beautifully reproduced and each photograph was pin sharp. His drawings were primarily in and executed in rich sepia hues. With skin tone colors of apricot, tan, sepia, mahogany, salmon, raw sienna, and burnt sienna, white was used primarily to alter shades and create a layered tint. Each shows the head and shoulders of young woman in tones of pinky sepia on the left, partnered by a fragment of landscape on the right. As the days grow shorter and cooler, plants take on new personas, ripening into warm gold, russet, and sepia tones. Old sepia photographs of the new arrivals, dressed proudly in suits, ties and bowler hats soon gave way to faded images of a population transformed into farmers, builders and engineers. Without using paint, brushes, pencil, charcoal or any other conventional tools, she makes images in shades of grey, black, yellow and sepia. The sepia tinted tableau is reminiscent of the opening, as a single file of prisoners traipse, gaunt and dirty, into the showers like animals to the slaughter. The sepia coloured calendar, which is selling well, is available from the Canal Street pub at £3.99. This stark palette fades to sepia, then finally emerges into full color. Synonyms hazel, chocolate-coloured, coffee-coloured, cocoa-coloured, nut-brown 1.1 A brown pigment prepared from a black fluid secreted by cuttlefish, used in monochrome drawing and in watercolors. 乌贼墨颜料 Example sentencesExamples This little collection comprises ten porcelain and eight copper examples, all very carefully painted in polychrome enamels, sepia, and encre de Chine. In the history of ink, which is rapidly coming to an end, the ancient world turns from the use of India ink to adopt sepia. I bought several bottles of sepia ink in a Paris ink shop today, as I've used almost a bottle of brown ink on this tour. 1.2 A drawing done with sepia. 乌贼墨颜料画 1.3 A blackish fluid secreted by a cuttlefish as a defensive screen. 乌贼分泌的墨汁 Example sentencesExamples Avoid getting the sepia on your floatation suits, nothing marks like cuttle ink. At the end of the 18th century it gained in popularity as a drawing medium because a reliable method of chemical extraction was discovered which produced a concentrated ink from the natural sepia. adjectiveˈsēpēəˈsipiə Of a reddish-brown color. 棕褐色的 old sepia photographs 棕褐色的老照片。 Origin Late Middle English (denoting a cuttlefish): via Latin from Greek sēpia ‘cuttlefish’. The current senses date from the early 19th century.
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