Meanings
- participlepastsimple past and past participle of ochre
comparative more ochred · superlative most ochred
- Painted or coloured with ochre.
I glanced around at the iron and bark walls decorated with spears and ochred totem-sticks, at the bare floor of hard earth, at the hurricane lamp dimly glowing upon rough, bush-made furniture.
1937, Ion L. Idriess, Over the Range, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, published 1947, page 207
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