Umber (noun)
um-ber
An earth consisting chiefly of a hydrated oxide of iron and some oxide of manganese, used in its natural state as a brown pigment (raw umber ) or, after heating, as a reddish-brown pigment (burnt umber ). / The color of such a pigment; dark dusky brown or dark reddish brown.
1250–1300; Middle English umbre, umber shade, shadow. Old French umbre
Example sentences
“The leaves changed from verdant green to umber.”
Medley (noun) med-lee a mixture, especially of heterogeneous elements; hodgepodge; jumble. First recorded in 1300–50; Middle English noun and adjective medle(e), medlei(e), maedlai(e) “battle, war, quarrel; mixture, balanced mixture,” from…
