burnt sienna

[ burnt see-en-uh ]

noun

1. sienna1
2. an intense dark reddish-brown color.

burnt sienna

noun

1. a reddish-brown dye or pigment obtained by roasting raw sienna in a furnace
2. a dark reddish-orange to reddish-brown colour

Word History and Origins

Origin of burnt sienna¹

First recorded in 1835–45

Example Sentences

“If I if I sell you a tube of ‘burnt sienna,’ that is God’s honest burnt sienna, dug up out of the ground, burned in an oven,” Cole says.

From Washington Post

The rap against Rushdie’s fiction is that it’s become increasingly “magical,” wonder-filled and windy, as if he were typing in turquoise and burnt sienna.

From New York Times

The playwright meticulously unwraps his psychology, interrupting the churlish commentary with lush and tender descriptions of color, like the “magenta, crimson lake, viridian, burnt sienna, cinnabar green” he’s putting to use in a painting.

From New York Times

But also there: “apricot,” “burnt sienna” and “mahogany.”

From Washington Post

His palette ran to burnt umber, yellow ocher, burnt sienna, olive green.

From Los Angeles Times