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Definition of Earth color
1. Noun. A colored mineral used as a pigment.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Earth Color
Literary usage of Earth color
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society Held at Philadelphia for by American Philosophical Society (1904)
"Most of them he painted in imitation of the color gradation of a grouse or
hare—earth color above to pure white beneath—while to two others he gave a coat ..."
2. The Auk: Quarterly Journal of Ornithology by American Ornithologists' Union, Nuttall Ornithological Club (1896)
"Most of these I colored in imitation of the color-gradation of a grouse or hare ;
earth-color above, to pure white beneath ; while to two others I gave a ..."
3. Catalogue of the Collection of Egyptian Antiquities Belonging to the Late by Joseph Bonomi, James Hay (1869)
"... of an earth color ... 1082. LARGE FRAGMENT of the shell of an unknown Fruit
This is probably the nest of some kind of insect. 1083. ..."
4. Handbook of Birds of Eastern North America: With Introductory Chapters on by Frank Michler Chapman (1912)
"Now, in imitation of nature, paint out the shadow on the lower half of two of
the models by grading through earth color laterally, to pure white on the ..."
5. Proceedings of the ... Annual Convention by Mid-West Cement Users' Association (1908)
"The color effect produced is glorious, and yet unobstrusive, being of earth color
and pastel shades of a very primitive nature. It is a true, artistic, ..."
6. The Principles of Nature: Her Divine Relations, & a Voice to Mankind by Andrew Jackson Davis (1871)
"... light thus modified in the great atomic envelope of the earth, color could
not exist. For color is the reflection of light ; and without light, ..."
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