burnt sienna

plural burnt siennas

1. dark reddish brown colour, like that of roasted sienna.

   We drink the last of the spring water in our canteens and, still thirsty, look to the river, that sombre flow the color of burnt sienna, raw umber, muy colorado, too thin to plow–as the Mormons say–and too thick to drink.

   1968, Edward Abbey, “Down the River”, in Desert Solitaire: A Season in the Wilderness, McGraw-Hill; republished New York: Touchstone, 1968, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 160

1. not comparableOf a dark reddish brown colour, like that of roasted sienna.