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sienna
/siˈɛnə/
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What does sienna mean?
noun
- A form of clay containing iron and manganese.
- A pigment with a reddish-brown colour.
- A light reddish-brown colour.
More meanings (2)
adjective
- having a reddish-brown colour.
proper noun
- A female given name from English of modern usage.
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Thus he fled from Florence in the disguise of a friar, again taking refuge at Sienna, and afterwards at Rome.
Like Saint Catherine of Sienna, Saint Teresa, and other holy women, she was specially attracted to the spiritual and devotional aspect of the Catholic Faith.
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In spite of your possessing Rome, Milan, Naples, Palermo, Turin, Florence, Sienna, Pisa, Mantua, Bologna, Ferrara, Genoa, Venice, a heroic history, sublime ruins, magnificent ruins, and superb cities, you are, like ourselves, poor.
Flesh Color--The best representative of flesh color is light red, brightened in the more glowing or warmer parts, with carmine, softened off in the lighter portions with white, and shaded with purple and burnt sienna.
The inside is the most abominable piece of tawdriness that ever was seen, stuffed with pillars painted in imitation of verd antique, as all the sides are like Sienna marble: but the greatest absurdity is a Doric frieze, between the triglyphs of which is the Jehovah, the I. H. S. and the Dove.