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sepias

sepias is the plural of sepia.

Meaning of sepia

Noun

sepia (countable and uncountable, plural sepias)

  1. (uncountable) A dark brown pigment made from the secretions of the cuttlefish.
    • 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.1930, A[loys] Merz, M[orris] Rea Paul, “Sepia”, in “Notes on Color Names”, in A Dictionary of Color, New York City: McGraw-Hill, page 179
  2. (uncountable) A dark, slightly reddish, brown colour.
  3. (broadly, countable) A sepia-coloured drawing or photograph.
  4. (archaic, countable) A cuttlefish.

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Questions about sepias

What is sepias the plural of?
Sepias is the plural of sepia.

Words near sepias in the dictionary

  1. sepialike
  2. sepian
  3. sepians
  4. sepiapterin
  5. sepiapterin reductase
  6. sepias
  7. sepic
  8. sepiid
  9. sepiids
  10. Sepik
  11. sepiment

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